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It's true what they say about him not knowing dick about computers freed his imagination. The technology in his stories doesn't feel dated. But other writers who know specific things about computers, oh man, their stories age badly. I picked up a used copy of Children of the Night by Dan Simmons recently. Aside from the fact that he's an awful writer, he talked about a character having a 386 so powerful that it had CD ROM memory. Shazam! |
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that's true. i do seem to remember some questionable line in johnny mnemonic about johnny having a "20 gigabyte" capacity or something. but i'm not sure if that was just in the (bad) film or in the original burning chrome story? But yeah, i think you could say that predictive scifi has gone the way of the western in a sense. All the best stuff is essentially predictive psychology a la ballard and dick. I confess i found it harder to get excited by gibson's trademark hyper dense descriptions when applied to the less exotic worlds of people checking their email as found in pattern recognition, compared to how agreeably abstract some of his earlier prose was . . . but the man is inarguably the proverbial good egg=] |
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oooh that cyberpunk documentary is great, i think i've still got it knocking about on a vhs somewhere |
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hard sci-fi vs. soft sci-fi there's still hard sci-fi out there, you just gotta know where to look. |
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would you like to clarify what you mean by that distinction? degree of superficiality? |
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20gb is a respectable thumb drive, which is what Johnny's brain is being used for. You can store a fuckload of industrial secrets (source code, formulas, blueprints) in 20 gigs. I couldn't watch that film. Keanu is such a plank, and it looked cheap and mindless. I just started reading Iain Banks' Culture novels. I'm on the first one. Love it. Have you ever read Greg Egan? Diaspora is possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. |
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i've yet to read iain banks. i was interested in the bridge at a point but never got around to checking it. i only seem to read technical manuals and sound books these days. . . i'll check out Diaspora . . . thanks for the heads up=] not sci fi but i'm getting ken robinson's book for xmas and looking forward to it re hedphucker - cheers=] |
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