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

[Joel Katz]

that's bull.  alan moore doesn't pander, and he's writing fucking 
comicbooks. 'pattern recognition' was almost poignant at times, it wanted so 
hard to be a 'real' novel.  and as for stephenson, c'mon, he's basically a 
fantasy novelist in dsguise, he wants to be writing about trolls and shit.



>It's US genre SF. People like Lem and The Strugatskys
>and yr New Wave types might have the luxury of
>ambiguity, of being all lit'rary about things, but ...
>well, again, I think maybe some expected too much
>outta PR, is all.  What world-shattering possibilties
>DID WG have there?  How SHOULD that have ended?  Okay,
>then.  What I thought interesting was that both Gibson
>and Bruce Sterling (Sterling) put out present day, non
>SF SF novels at roughly the same time ...
>
>--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But as to fascile endings to please an immature
> > audience, I don't think that's much of an excuse...
>
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