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Wintermute  ·  4091 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Experiment: Help me graph my Hubski tree

Sure is. Neuromancer is easily my favorite novel, and I'm interested in artificial intelligence.





thefoundation  ·  4091 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't give away spoilers! I just started reading neuromancer haha

user-inactivated  ·  4091 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I could never get into those books, but I did appreciate the concept. Gibson's writing was never that exciting to me, seemed...overworked somehow. My favorite in that genre is Snow Crash.

akkartik  ·  4087 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I got into scifi through Arthur C Clarke, and compared to hard scifi cyberpunk can seem weird. It's taken me 15 years to learn to accept it for what it is and not judge it by the standards of other sub-genres.

Have you read Pattern Recognition? I think it's Gibson's best work. (And serendipitously enough it prominently features Klein blue.)

user-inactivated  ·  4087 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have not read that, I'll look into it, thanks.

Wintermute  ·  4091 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I can understand that. I love Neuromancer, and like the other two books in the sprawl series, but after that Gibson really falls off for me. I like Stephenson better overall.

user-inactivated  ·  4091 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Stephenson makes me laugh, but he doesn't sacrifice on the ideas presented in Snow Crash, which really makes his book pop for me.