LostinSpaceman opened this issue on May 25, 2007 · 81 posts
SamTherapy posted Sun, 01 July 2007 at 6:19 AM
Quote - Any novel by William Gibson, but especially Idoru, which is about a virtual pop music star followed by a rabid bunch of cyberfans linked through a Second Life-type community, although I understand someone may be developing an anime version. Gibson's most recent novel, Pattern Recognition (a bestseller), is apparently being made into a movie. Gibson is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. Bono and The Edge are big fans. Some of you may know Gibson as the author of Neuromancer (another good topic for a CG movie, it was the first novel to win all three major science fiction book awards). I think it was as visionary as any novel published in the last 25 years. In their 1990 novel The Difference Engine, he and Bruce Sterling helped popularize the "steampunk" idea -- advanced science mixed with 19th-century design and mentality. The theme has made its way into a number of Poser props, costumes and figures as well as the actual name of a Poser vendor. SS
Much as I like Gibson's work, I shied away from mentioning it. Remeber Johnny Mnemonic? Bleah.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.