The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk

Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by Tr3nton on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:11PM (#30928058)

I couldn't even finish Snow Crash. The fact the protagonist's name was "Hiro Protagonist" is a good example of the intellectual tone of the novel. Every character reminded me of Poochy from The Simpsons, an over-written "edgy" anti-hero, as compelling as an episode of Saved By The Bell.

Neuromancer on the other hand I still think about, and I haven't read it in a decade.

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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by Nursie on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:17PM (#30928095)

I enjoyed it, but it must be read with that in mind - every character is a caricature, and the dystopia they live in is that way too.

If you don't take it as being serious in any way (other than in its satire of cyberpunk and its lambasting of a corporate-owned American future), I find it quite enjoyable.

But it is a satire. I hope :)

(Market Forces by Richard Morgan is another book I very much enjoyed, which is also very much this way)

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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by laichzeit0 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:11AM (#30931147)

Same, I actually tried reading Snow Crash on my kindle a month ago. I've read pretty much all of Gibson and found Snow Crash too... corny? I gave up at about the point where some autonomous dog thing died. Sci-fi is like vi / emacs preferences I guess.

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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by d13 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:31AM (#30943123)

I gave up at exactly the same place. Absolutely baffled why it’s constantly cited, it’s totally insipid, unimaginative, and poorly written.

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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:39PM (#30936582)

I've never read Snow Crash but that name strikes me as Pynchon-esque.

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