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Why hasn't anything been able to recapture the feeling of the original Sprawl trilogy?

Nothing since has come even close to the tone and color of these three books. Not even William Gibson's later books are as good as these.

It feels like Gibson set the bar for Cyberpunk with these and no one since has been able to top it.

>> No.20734445

Read neuroman and it was shit

>> No.20734454

>>20734438
Neuromancer is such a terrible book

>> No.20734455

>>20734445
>>20734454
What cyberpunk book are you comparing it to?

>> No.20734462

>>20734454
yeah i read it on recommendation from a friend who knows my taste and knows i don't like scifi & he's like broooo this is better than most sci-fi you'll love it

first few chapters were good but once the character driven narrative kicks in it goes so far downhill

>> No.20734468

>>20734455
I dont give a shit about your worthless labels

>> No.20734477

>>20734468
Alright, what books are you comparing it to, in general, that you consider it shitty?

>> No.20734510

>>20734438
There's no fame in being a copycat.

>> No.20734515

>>20734510
>Who is Virgil

>> No.20734753

>>20734445
>>20734454
Were you guys filtered.

>> No.20734764

>>20734462
I kind of felt the same way, and I actually thought Neuromancer was the weakest of the three books. Not sure why it gets all the attention. The following two books have better characters, and feel a little bit less goofy overall.

>> No.20734766

>>20734753
Not only is your book shitty, the entire "genre" it exists in is shitty.

>> No.20734770

>>20734764
Which part of Neuromancer did you think of as goofy?

>> No.20734791

>>20734438
Read Neuromancer and it was kino

>> No.20734796

>>20734770
Rastafarians in space.

>> No.20734800

>>20734796
Rastafarians exist right now, do you think of them as goofy?

>> No.20734802

Neuromancer is shit

>> No.20734807

>>20734800
Depends how goofy they are.

>> No.20734812

>>20734807
I thought of the Rastafarian Pilot as one of the cooler characters in the book. He stuck out no worse than the "Scarred African Tribesman in a naval uniform" or the "Dorian Grey Cyborg"

>> No.20734818

>>20734812
Which characters were those?

>> No.20734823

>>20734764
No way. Neuromancer is incomparably better than other two books. Somehow, it just keeps filtering scum around here, especially this summer.

>> No.20734826

>>20734818
I'd have to find my copy to say specifically, but I remember them both being from the first part of the story, when Case thinks he's being chased by an assassin or something.

>> No.20734850

>>20734823
Neuromancer is a Kubrick film
Count Zero is a Micheal Bay summer blockbuster film that is "fun" but not really a work of art
Mona Lisa is an Soviet arthouse film

I've always said that if any of the three could be translated to film, Count Zero would be the best to do so.

>> No.20734892

>>20734850
your brain has been fried by visual media

>> No.20734896

>>20734892
Your brain has not developed properly due to your lack of visual stimulation.

>> No.20734903

>>20734438
I read this series as a kid and didn't think much, but I recently reread Neuromancer and it was 5/5. I should really reread the rest because I barely remember shit from them

>> No.20735052

I love the Sprawl trilogy. Neuromancer is one of my favourite books ever. William Gibson was definitely inspired by something supernatural when he wrote it. You remind me I've been thinking of getting Burning Chrome and Virtual Light for a while.

>> No.20735650

>>20735052
His short stories certainly are better than his later novels.

>> No.20735835

>>20734796
The descriptions of the rastafari spacemen with dub in the background are some of my favorite bits in the book. Filtered.

>> No.20735867

You could always read the original proto-cyberpunk novel, i.e. "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick.
It was made into the movie "Blade Runner".
Another one I enjoyed greatly was "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson.

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>>20734438
Don't forget the prequel. Great stuff.

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>>20734445
>>20734454
>>20734468
>>20734766
>It's shit! It's shitty! It's shitty shit!

>> No.20737519

Bruce Sterling - Islands in the Net is pretty close

>> No.20738634

>>20737155
The point of a automation is to come to the right result quickly.

It is shit.

>> No.20738774

>>20734454
This is correct.

>> No.20739163

>>20734454
This is incorrect.

>> No.20739186

>>20734477
any book with decent prose

gibson was just aping pynchon anyways

>> No.20739554

>>20739186
Name one, so I can explain why you're either making a bad faith comparison or you're just retarded.

>> No.20739907

>>20737155
Yeah, it is.

>> No.20740219

>>20739186
clueless moron.

>> No.20740440

>>20738634
>>20739907
Yes NPC-kun please tell me more of your pre-chewed opinions

>> No.20741521

>>20734468
You will never be a woman

>> No.20741612

>>20739186
I heard a comparison made that said Gibson is like Don Delillo if he was cool, the same way Cormac McCarthy is Faulkner if he was cool. I think it's a sound assessment. Pynchon works in an entirely different ballpark so the comparison doesn't make sense.