NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, I finally bought and read the book. And having finished it all in one sitting, I feel I need to apologise to Max on two counts.
1) For playing the game for so long without making any effort to support it. Thats rectified now though.
2) For not really beleiving that the book would be any good. To be honest I just didnt see how it could pan out, but I loved the way it did.

Ill be getting Syrup as soon as I see it and hopefully that will match JG. Even if it falls short Im sure I'll like it.

Will there be a sequesl to it? I liked the Pepsi kids remark at the end, where he said there may well be another attempt to topple the Government someday, I'd like to see how that would pan out.

Wow, I find myself in the same circumstances. I received the book from a friend who bought it for me at the Seattle signing and I agree.

You should get in touch with William Gibson Max, you both share a similar vision but yours does have some more hope to it. Gives you a chance to hang out in Vancouver too. :wink:

Ah!!!
That would be interesting, a Gibson - Barry partnership coauthoring a book...

Who is this William Gibson? I've never heard of him. What books has he written?

Hes one of the foremost Cyberpunk writers.

Ah!!!
That would be interesting, a Gibson - Barry partnership coauthoring a book...

Woah! They haven't even met, yet! LOL! :lol:

Hes one of the foremost Cyberpunk writers.

What is cyber punk like?

Hes one of the foremost Cyberpunk writers.

Oh...okay. That's very weird. :?

Hes one of the foremost Cyberpunk writers.

What is cyber punk like?

Haha!!! Time to consult the dictionary...

poof there it is:
/si:'ber-puhnk/ (Originally coined by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois) A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel "Neuromancer" (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's "True Names" to John Brunner's 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider"). Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly na"ive and tremendously stimulating. Gibson's work was widely imitated, in particular by the short-lived but innovative "Max Headroom" TV series. See cyberspace, ice, jack in, go flatline.

Since 1990 or so, popular culture has included a movement or fashion trend that calls itself "cyberpunk", associated especially with the rave/techno subculture. Hackers have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, self-described cyberpunks too often seem to be shallow trendoids in black leather who have substituted enthusiastic blathering about technology for actually learning and *doing* it. Attitude is no substitute for competence. On the other hand, at least cyberpunks are excited about the right things and properly respectful of hacking talent in those who have it. The general consensus is to tolerate them politely in hopes that they'll attract people who grow into being true hackers.

Well thats certainly very thorough! Cheers Pilon.

I thought that it meant punks who go on the internet... :oops:

Its actually a dead genre though, everyone does Steampunk now.

Its actually a dead genre though, everyone does Steampunk now.

Is that exactly the same as cyberpunk?