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Tometheus: adding titles to the bookheaders.

2006-12-16T17:33:46Z

adding titles to the bookheaders.

Tometheus at 17:31, 16 December 2006

2006-12-16T17:31:49Z

Tometheus: /* Neuromancer */

2006-12-16T17:09:33Z

Neuromancer

Tometheus at 16:53, 16 December 2006

2006-12-16T16:53:02Z

Tometheus: /* Mona Lisa Overdrive */

2006-12-16T16:51:35Z

Mona Lisa Overdrive

WikiSysop at 16:48, 16 December 2006

2006-12-16T16:48:40Z

WikiSysop: 3 revision(s)

2006-12-16T13:59:47Z

3 revision(s)

Tometheus at 01:27, 7 October 2006

2006-10-07T01:27:22Z

Tometheus: /* Neuromancer */

2006-10-07T01:26:14Z

Neuromancer

Tometheus at 01:25, 7 October 2006

2006-10-07T01:25:02Z

New page

I'd read [[#Neuromancer|Neuromancer]] before, but I'd never read the sequels.

==Neuromancer==
{{bookheader | author=William Gibson | pubdate=1984 | pages=271 | read=2006.10.05 | rate=9 | expect=9 | ISBN=0-441-56958-7}}

I have a weakness for books that do something original or start a genre. This book is largely responsible for the cyberpunk genre of science fiction. It's hard to see it now because the format has been copied so many times, but it was truly an original work. True, better works have come since in the genre, but this is still the original that got everyone thinking.

:''His buyer for the three megabytes of hot RAM in the Hitachi wasn't taking calls.''

I find that quote so utterly droll. It's amazing how much writers/computer geeks in the 80s underestimated the size memory would grow to. The amount of bandwidth he talks about is similarly humorous. He talks about ''cities'' using Gbit bandwidths when today we have that much going to individual residences.

It's entertaining how he uses the word 'microsoft' not for the company, but for a type of software. A writer just couldn't get away with that today.

I had never realized before that Johnny Mnemonic was also in the Sprawl universe. I just never connected the two, until Molly starts talking about her old boyfriend Johnny who was a data trafficker, & etc, etc.

Anyways, I still like it, maybe not so much for what it ''was'', but what it ''did'' to our culture. (Hey, where would ''The Matrix'' be without Neuromancer? It would probably have been called ''The Net'' or something. Oh wait. That was that movie that -- noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!)

--[[User:Tometheus|Tometheus]] 21:25, 6 October 2006 (EDT)

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 ==Neuromancer==
-{{bookheader | author=William Gibson | pubdate=1984 | pages=271 | read=1994?, 2006.10.05 | rate=9 | expect=9 | ISBN=0-441-56958-7}}
+{{bookheader | author=William Gibson | pubdate=1984 | pages=271 | read=1994?, 2006.10.05 | rate=9 | expect=9 | ISBN=0-441-56958-7|title=Neuromancer}}
 I have a weakness for books that do something original or start a genre.  This book is largely responsible for the cyberpunk genre of science fiction.  It's hard to see it now because the format has been copied so many times, but it was truly an original work.  True, better works have come since in the genre, but this is still the original that got everyone thinking.
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 ==Count Zero==
-{{bookheader | author=William Gibson | pubdate=1986 | pages=246 | read=2006.11 | rate=2 | expect=9 | ISBN=0-441-11773-2}}
+{{bookheader | author=William Gibson | pubdate=1986 | pages=246 | read=2006.11 | rate=2 | expect=9 | ISBN=0-441-11773-2|title=Count Zero}}
 One thing I really disliked about this book and Mona Lisa Overdrive was that they were really two parts of the same story.  The combined book is ''not long enough'' to split into two books!  I hate it when authors do this.  I can understand when the combined book would be, say, 800 pages, but the combined book here would be 546 pages, even if all duplicate material is left in.  (By duplicate material, I mean reintroducing characters, backstory, etc.)  That is by no means pushing the limits of an acceptable book length.  (Just look at the Harry Potter books or King books, etc.)
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 ==Mona Lisa Overdrive==
-{{bookheader | author=William Gibson | pubdate=1988 | pages=308 | read=2006.12.02 | rate=3 | expect=2 | ISBN=0-553-28174-7}}
+{{bookheader | author=William Gibson | pubdate=1988 | pages=308 | read=2006.12.02 | rate=3 | expect=2 | ISBN=0-553-28174-7|title=Mona Lisa Overdrive}}
 OK, so let me get this straight.  The title of the book is about the title character taking drugs?  That's it?  It's not even an important story plot point!  She was doing that from the very beginning.  It doesn't help with the plot resolution or anything.  This has to be one of the worst book titles I've seen.

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 At least this book has more of a ''conclusion'' than C0 did.
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