We're doing MAD SCIENCE up in this shit.

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My experience of Neuromancer was under similar conditions. I reckon I gained more insight from the weed, personally.

Granted, that whole Wintergreen thing was confusing, still, it was more engaging that my pre-req's

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.

I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.

I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.

Miseryguts dystopianism.  Doom porn.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.

I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.

Miseryguts dystopianism.  Doom porn.

Ooooh, I bet that was popular in the 1990's!

[P3nT4gR4m]

"Gibson-esque" became the cyberpunk equivalent of "Orwellian" it was depressing. Dude was like the luddite version of Charlie Stross or Corey Doctorow

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Yea, not really summer beach reading material.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.

I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.

Miseryguts dystopianism.  Doom porn.

Ooooh, I bet that was popular in the 1990's!

We had, you may recall, that fucked up guy from Seattle singing about how fucked everything was.  We spent the first half of the decade fapping to Victorious War Porn, and the second half worrying about a blue dress and where the cigar goes.  It was a decade that DESERVED Gibson. 

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I don't remember how any of this came up in the first place, but Snow Crash is the only cyberpunk anyone needs to read ever. Well, maybe Phillip K Dick too, but if it's a one book thing then Snow Crash.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

he wrote Neuromancer, which features THE WORST imagining of the future of the internet ever. He's incredibly overrated as a cyberpunk author.

I don't think I've ever heard of this book. I've heard people talk about William Gibson, and it eventually dawned on me that I have no idea.

Miseryguts dystopianism.  Doom porn.

Ooooh, I bet that was popular in the 1990's!

We had, you may recall, that fucked up guy from Seattle singing about how fucked everything was.  We spent the first half of the decade fapping to Victorious War Porn, and the second half worrying about a blue dress and where the cigar goes.  It was a decade that DESERVED Gibson.

Ah, it all makes sense! The era of Alternative Rock, a time when youth was all about showing off how jaded you were by watching Faces of Death without flinching.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't remember how any of this came up in the first place, but Snow Crash is the only cyberpunk anyone needs to read ever. Well, maybe Phillip K Dick too, but if it's a one book thing then Snow Crash.

I thought Snow Crash was John Krakauer's retelling of that plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972, where they had to eat the dead passengers in order to survive.

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I don't remember how any of this came up in the first place, but Snow Crash is the only cyberpunk anyone needs to read ever. Well, maybe Phillip K Dick too, but if it's a one book thing then Snow Crash.

I thought Snow Crash was John Krakauer's retelling of that plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972, where they had to eat the dead passengers in order to survive.

And there I was thinking it was the second installment of an Iceberg Slim trilogy.

[Reginald Ret]

Nigel and Lucifer, I can't tell if you are serious.

The book presents the Sumerian language as the firmware programming language for the brainstem, which is supposedly functioning as the BIOS for the human brain. According to characters in the book, the goddess Asherah is the personification of a linguistic virus, similar to a computer virus. The god Enki created a counter-program which he called a nam-shub that caused all of humanity to speak different languages as a protection against Asherah (a re-interpretation of the ancient Near Eastern story of the Tower of Babel).

Though I think Nigel may prefer Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller.

In the novel, Taylor is a chemist working for GEE, a fictional environmental activism group which stages both protests and direct actions plugging toxic waste pipes. Taylor becomes involved with Basco Industries, a fictional corporation which produced Agent Orange and is a major supplier of organic chlorine compounds. Basco experiments with genetic engineering to develop chemical producing microbes, driving Taylor's efforts to expose their crimes and preserve Boston Harbor.

A number of the later events of the novel take place on Boston Harbor's Spectacle Island which at the time of publication was almost entirely composed of garbage. In the story it is frequented by drugged-out and reputedly Satanic groupies of the "two-umlaut" heavy metal music band, Pöyzen Böyzen, who are too intoxicated with angel dust to realize they are poisoning themselves with the toxic waste that was dumped there.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, one thing for sure, is that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with airplane crashes or cannibalism.

Interest lost.

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D.D.O.S. To counter linguistic virus infiltration and side-step the plots requirement for weaponized SDA/RI's leveraged toward human exploitation...  I might just have to stay up and read that.

[it had me at Deliverator]

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, one thing for sure, is that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with airplane crashes or cannibalism.

Interest lost.