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kleinbl00  ·  3683 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A love letter to William Gibson

You know how you can watch War of the Worlds - the original - and it's still an amazing sci fi movie even though it's full of flying wings, atomic bombs, sherman tanks and newspapers?

The Sprawl trilogy happens in a Cold War universe where Berlin has been nuked, there are recreational space stations and hackers are highly-paid rock star specialists that use virtual reality to break into artificial intelligences with the aid of rogue Rastafarians.

and it is spectacular.

This comment's first link has a great quote from William Gibson, which comes from the article above.