neuromancer – Cannonball Read 17

If stealing from dragons is bad, what about stealing for them?

Never Steal from Dragons by Patrick Dugan

February 24, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Never Steal From Dragons is a fun cozy sci-fi/fantasy heist adventure. A lot of the expected tropes are present: a group of very highly skilled but very different individuals are forcibly assembled by a mysterious powerful individual who wants them to steal something in return for basically making their dreams come true; it is of course an offer that cannot be refused. Chaos, clever remarks, etc. ensues. In the world of Harmony, there are any number of beings recognizable from folklore including pixies, dragons, kitsune, […]

Review #11: “Boy, I was daid”

Neuromancer by William Gibson

December 30, 2023 by Monty Leave a Comment

A re-read, but one I do every year or two because of just how much I love this book. Publisher’s description: “The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace… Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of […]

But I think it’s better to let the deal stand.

Neuromancer by William Gibson

September 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL! Kind of. William Gibson would never claim credit for starting a genre, especially given how much of his writing borrows from those who came before him, both in the reading of his childhood in the 1950s and 1960s and through the writing of his most recent forebears investigating anti-capital and anti-heteronormative ideas in the 1960s and 1970s. This novel has a lot to owe to writers like Alfred Bester and Samuel Delaney, among many others. So this is the […]

So weird even Wikipedia can’t help explain the Gibson

April 6, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I started to compose this review in my head even before I’d finished the book. William Gibson is my dad’s favorite writer, and while I’ve read one or two of his short stories, I’ve never read his novels (Gibson, not Dad). I decided to start with Neuromancer as it’s the book that really made Gibson famous as the founder of the cyberpunk genre and which popularized the term ‘cyberspace’ which Gibson made up in a previous publication; it was also the first book to ever […]

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