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25 Years of Neuromancer

Neuromancer Cover.jpg One of my all time favorite books, William Gibson’s Neuromancer, turns 25 today. Thanks to PC/Mac/Whatever-world for reminding me.

Thinking about what the The Road and Neuromancer have in common, brilliant dialog is central to their power. Gibson developed a whole new language of technology based cultural cool. His dialog imbued seriously nerdy elements with a hipster chic. McCarthy pared down conversations between a father and son, discarding even the quotation marks, to match the bleakness and despair of their situation. The duds I’ve read recently all had weak, tepid dialog.

Maybe I’ve become a dialog connoisseur, which might explain the obsession with Tarantino films.

I’m putting the complete Sprawl trilogy on this year’s to read list.

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