`It's not like I'm tooting,' Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. `It's like my body's developed this massive meme deficiency.' It was a Fediverse voice and a Fediverse joke. The Catsubo was an instance for professional shitposters; you could lurk there for a week and never see two words of Discourse.
@djsundog This was how William Gibson always intended it, but the technology he needed to bring it to life hadn't been invented yet.
@cute_weeds @djsundog ah, Gibson...did any of his later work really come up to "Neuromancer"? I followed him for a bit but nothing else he wrote really stuck with me.
doesn't matter, Gibson is still a minor hero to me (too bad the false prophet Stephenson came along to steal his glory)
@djsundog @cute_weeds ah, well said!
@djsundog @kara_dreamer @cute_weeds yeah. i..... honestly like some of his later stuff.... better on their own terms...?
except that neuramance is still *neuromancer* and.... yeah, that biases things pretty heckin' hard.
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@kara_dreamer @djsundog Same. I don't even know if Neuromancer would hold up, but the magic of reading it when I was 16 is still there.
@kara_dreamer @cute_weeds I enjoy most of his work for various bits and pieces but I don't think any will ever be able to supplant the OH moment that reading Neuromancer for the first time gave me so it kind of wind by default forever for me