As mentioned in my last post – Ling and I attended a signing and reading of William Gibson’s Spook Country last night. About 50 + people attended (full house) the event at Cody’s (last remaining) Bookstore on 4th St in Berkeley. Ling and I have attended these kind of events before ( for Neil Gaiman [&hellip
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Spook Country…
Tonight Ling and I are heading to Spook Country …. actually we are heading to Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley to see/hear William Gibson talk about and I am sure read from his new book Spook Country… Clearly Gibson is one of the pioneers of Cyberpunk and either Ling or I will have a report back [&hellip
Shadowrun the series Part 2
So what makes the Shadowrun Novels so special? Glad you asked. As I said in my previous post I was really a fantasy book reader prior to reading the first book in the Shadowrun series Never Deal with a Dragon. What made Shadowrun so unique was that it combined Science Fiction with Magic. The premise [&hellip
Shadowrun the series Part 1
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What is Cyberpunk?
Well, far be it from me to offer a definitive definition, but I know it when I read it. It’s usually near-future distopian literature with some cybernetics and some punks (ie hackers). Virtual Reality, the net, feature large in most cyberpunk. To put it in movie terms, Blade Runner, not Star Wars. Brasil, in which [&hellip