What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[rasetsu]

I never liked Pinker's writing. I've sampled a few of his books and didn't like any of them.

[JimC]

I'm re-reading the Laundry Files series by Charles Stross - weird SF, like a cross between Lovecraft and Len Deighton...

[macdoc]

Interesting parallel ....never did get into Stross thos have read at least one.

Still on the long journey through Mazalan Land ...maybe 40% done

[Sean Hayden]

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, Matt Taibbi

[JimC]

I'm reading a fantasy series by a Melbourne author, Keri Arthur - The Relic Hunters...

[rasetsu]

[Joe]

Enjoying this.

[pErvinalia]

That would be interesting. I've always had a fascination with the flow of humans throughout the pacific.

[macdoc]

Finally into the 7th book of 10

REAPER’S GALE
BOOK SEVEN OF THE
MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN

STEVEN ERIKSON

[Svartalf]

Going thru William Gibson's Count Zero after reading Neuromancer

[Brian Peacock]

Going thru William Gibson's Count Zero after reading Neuromancer

I read those when they came out. Wondering if they've aged well or are horribly dated now?

[Svartalf]

bit of both.. the principle has aged well, but the presence of telefaxes and the absence of portable phones are kinda dated

[Svartalf]

Going thru William Gibson's Count Zero after reading Neuromancer

I read those when they came out. Wondering if they've aged well or are horribly dated now?

One thing I find VERY dated, but hadn't noticed at first is : climate is assumed to be normal
More intriguingly, tobacco is still very common

[Brian Peacock]

I always thought Sterling and Rucker built better worlds, but at the time Gibson's ideas seemed way ahead of the competition. Have you read Frank Miller's Ronin Svarty?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_%28DC_Comics%29

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[macdoc]

1984 really was ahead of the knowledge of climate change. ( tho Exxon knew ) 1988 was the key date for Hansen.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... prediction

I read all of Gibson as they came out and marvelled at the guy ....he didn't even own a computer at the time.....pure speculation.
This world buster was only just released at the SuperBowl and I happened to see it and had never touched a computer either.

until a year later and the Mac became my career.

His emphasis on Japan and west coast America was vivid enough that any dated tech was outweighed as he got so much correct.