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n3wjack
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Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:25:46 +0200
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Re: [idm] science fiction reading, weeping [offtopic]
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:37:19 -0700 (PDT), Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net> wrote:
quoted 17 lines On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, seek wrote:> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, seek wrote: > > > From: "Eric Sorenson" > > > seek wrote: > > > > Gibson's last thing, 'Pattern Recognition', started out amazing, > > > > but wimped out, imo. > > > > > It was a scene-for-scene retread of 'Neuromancer'! > > > > How's that? > > (this is way, way, way offtopic but what the hell...) > > It's been several months so I can no longer go point-by-point, > but bottom line, consider the 'deus ex machina' revealed at the > end of the stories which generates beautiful, mysterious, > and ultimately meaningless artifacts ..
going even more off topic, I liked the Deus Ex Machina computer games a lot as well for the SF/cyberpunk ideas in them, nothing really original when you're using to reading those kind of books, but it's kinda cool to be able to use illegal black market biomods on your character to turn her (yes, it was a a girl, somehow I enjoy that more...) into a stealthy catlike assasin with nightvision -- "progress doesn't come from early risers progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things" http://n3wjack.blogspot.com http://www.jungletrain.bet - 24/7 dnb radio station --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org