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Originally Posted by Bazael  Neuromancer
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I forget who does the 3 listed above, I've found them extremely difficult to read though. He doesn't jump around a lot, but it seems like he does. I feel like there are some big plot holes here and there that just seem intentially left blank, but would actually be good filler. The books are only 300ish pages as is, no reason not to fill in some more info. Also, it seems like he intentionally uses large words that don't need to be used, and really winds around the story. He'll describe stuff in great detail that is just completely worthless. "A man walks down a street and sees a pebble that contains more colors than his mind can comprehend, and he wonders where it's been, and why its there, blah blah blah" . Just wierd tangent shit that has no place. |
William Gibson. He created cyberpunk, but others have done it better (like Neal Stephenson). His stuff is basically all downhill after Neuromancer imo. I read Pattern Recognition not too long ago and it was boring to the point where I almost didn't even finish it.
As for suggestions, I'd give my highest possible recommendation for Richard K. Morgan and his Takeshi Kovacs series. He writes of a future in which humans have colonized many new worlds and now possess technology which makes it possible to transfer one's consciousness across space and into a new body. The first book, Altered Carbon, is part sci-fi and part noir/detective story that takes place on Earth. The second one, Broken Angels, is more pure sci-fi (with a little horror on the side) and takes place in the middle of a war out on a distant colonized planet. The third one, Woken Furies, is another genre shift, but I'm still waiting on it to get here for me to read.
Anyone who liked Snow Crash should pick up Morgan's stuff asap.