'Aliens have taken the place of angels' - NP: Gibson

[Ghetta Life]

The biggest virtue of Gibson's firsy trilogy was its anticipating 
technological applications that are becomming more real everyday, and it was 
a fun read (although sometimes a bit silly).  Seeing people walking around 
w/ mini-cell phones attached to their ears makes me think of all those 
implanted technologies he wrote about way back then (1984), back when real 
cell pnes were bigger than Maxwell Smart's shoe.

I read the Difference Engine, an alternate history in which computers 
emerged full-force berfore electricity, steam-powered.  The technology was 
better than the story.

But as to fascile endings to please an immature audience, I don't think 
that's much of an excuse...

Ghetta

>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>
>I think All Tomorrow's Parties is Gibson's best novel to date.  I preferred 
>in general the Virtual Light/Idoru/ATP trilogy to the Neuromancer/Count 
>Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive arc.  And I really like Pattern Recognition as 
>well.  I think it disappointed only because he didn't have the luxury of 
>all that build-up without any determinate ending, unlike SOME
>people we know.  In fact, it probably disappointed BECAUSE it was so 
>remisiscent of The Crying of Lot 49.   Perhaps too much was expected of it 
>as a result. Imagine the SF fanbvoy/general reader response had it left 
>things unresolved.  Remember what happened to Twin Peaks.

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