There’s the realpolitik of Russia, and Japan, and China, and Germany, and the United States, and wealth, and poverty. “One of the things that I love about William Gibson is how interconnected his world feels. That’s cool.’ … I wonder if is just trying to draw our attention to how materialistic the society has become-everybody’s just so brainwashed by capitalism that the first thing they see is the material that someone is wearing, not the person.” And I was like, ‘Well … maybe? He’s a sensitive killer. In Spook Country there was this hitman, this killer, and he checks into a hotel room, and then he’s remarking on the type of metal that they used on the faucets in the bathroom. “Someone can’t walk into a room without describing the make of their shoes and what kind of tie they’re wearing, and where they got their jacket. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.

Miller, and Theresa De Lucci in Episode 477 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). Listen to the complete interview with Matthew Kressel, Sam J. His novels have drastically changed in focus and scope, so he’s still doing his thing, and just being authentic to his voice and his interests.”

“He was sort of the gold standard for the movement at the time,” she says. Horror author Theresa De Lucci has remained a devoted Gibson fan through each phase of his career. In the ’90s Gibson largely abandoned the cyberpunk genre, focusing instead on novels set in the present and near future. “If you were to rip off half the things in this book and use them in a book now, it would be amazing. “The ideas are so dense and exciting,” he says. Miller constantly finds himself discarding story ideas because he realizes that Neuromancer beat him to the punch. “More than any other science fiction book that I can think of, Neuromancer conveys what the future is going to feel like,” says Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley. This darker view, which came to be called cyberpunk, proved far more prophetic. Neuromancer helped crystallize an alternative view of the future, one dominated by hackers, drugs, and mega-corporations. Science fiction of the ’40s and ’50s tended to evoke a consensus future of jetpacks, flying cars, and domestic robots.

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