Maybe
Multiple books can approach the same theme with varying intensity and differing approaches, without one necessarily being made obsolete or a simple digression
Gibson's work is so much more about the raw experience than the themes that comparing him to other "better" Sci-Fi writers kinda comes off as that pretentious guy that mockingly compares the output of snotty punk bands to a bunch of extensive anarcho-socialist treatises
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