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So you’re saying that I lacked the reading comprehension skills to understand the setting?
How do you think Gibson stacks up to writers like Don DeLillo or Saul Bellow or even Faulkner? Because I don’t think Virtual Light is the Unit Structures of fiction. I know you’re a talented writer yourself, something I certainly am not, but I’m a pretty damn good reader.
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I have to wonder if the people who worship On The Road have read Heart of Darkness.
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Understand, as in making an effort to entertain his word-based spasms as more than just skippable edgery
Has less to do with reading comprehension and experience and more to do with a willingness to just dive in and hallucinate along with him, and find horribly beautiful parallels to current life and society in the haze (which I firmly believe even a first time reader can do, and does, even if just on a basic level, and even if they don't realize it) Even someone who very rarely reads can get a lot out of Gibson. They don't need to know how to read rul gud, they just need to have been to a city at least once in their life Can you dig the rebop, pops?
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Good sci-fi doesn’t have to be intuitive but it often helps. So let’s say I’m stacking up science fiction authors and I’m considering this quote
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compared to say Ursula K. Le Guin‘s The Dispossessed Gibson’s universe is a three page digression by Le Guin. That’s how deep the disparity runs.
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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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PS **** that hack.
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What's your favorite Sci-Fi novel, Hawk?
Gimme recs. Make my balls tingle.
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2312 is bad ass imo
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