{"id":1180,"date":"2009-11-11T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:11:41","slug":"neuromancer-25-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"Neuromancer &#8211; 25 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.antonraubenweiss.com\/gibson\/images\/neuromancer_small.jpg?w=660\"><br \/>\nNZ political life continues to be ridiculous (media training protip for Hone Harawira: <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/politics-news\/harawira-goff-and-his-mates-should-shot-3125983\">when you are giving an apology, do not issue the opinion that another politician should be shot<\/a>), global climate change progress <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/11\/09\/road-to-copenhagen-tragedy-of-the-commons\/\">continues to flounder in a commons dilemma<\/a>, the US right wing <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3zDcS9\">continues to devour itself<\/a>, and the Breakers continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/basketball\/3041950\/Kirk-Penneys-return-pushed-back\">suffer without Kirk Penney<\/a>. So I don&#8217;t have much to say about any of that.<br \/>\nInstead, I get to write a 25-year-anniversary reconsideration of <em>Neuromancer<\/em>, because I read it by the pool in Thailand. Here&#8217;s the review:<br \/>\n<em>Yep, still good, and I understand it much better now.<\/em><br \/>\nNot that I read it when it first came out, of course, I was only eight. <em>Neuromancer<\/em> is about a dude who wants to live in cyberspace, but he got kicked out because he screwed over the wrong person. The first chunk of the book is straight-up Noir, then it switches seamlessly into a Caper story. It seems an odd sort of book to have changed the world; coming back to it, its narrative seems more contained than ever, smaller and more of an inward spiral. But its a smart and pleasing read. It&#8217;ll still be in circulation in a hundred years, and William Gibson will no doubt be bemused by that, but why not?<br \/>\nThe two 25-anniversary articles to read are these:<br \/>\nMark Sullivan writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/167670\/neuromancer_at_25_what_it_got_right_what_it_got_wrong.html\">what it got right (e.g. the web), what it got wrong (e.g. AIs)<\/a>.<br \/>\nJoe McNeilly at GamesRadar gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/f\/neuromancer-25-years-later\/a-2009081412140648081\">an interesting overview of the book in its context and its legacy<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonraubenweiss.com\/gibson\/01neuromancer.html\">this site is a good hub for more info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NZ political life continues to be ridiculous (media training protip for Hone Harawira: when you are giving an apology, do not issue the opinion that another politician should be shot), global climate change progress continues to flounder in a commons dilemma, the US right wing continues to devour itself, and the Breakers continue to suffer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1180\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neuromancer &#8211; 25 years on<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-ive-seen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-j2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}