Comments | manzilla: Writer's Block: Neuromancer

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Writer's Block: Neuromancer

Oct 01, 2008 21:01

cyberspace, william gibson, writer's block, neuromancer, cyberpunk, sci-fi

Comments 7

dawankler October 2 2008, 02:15:20 UTC

This is rather timely. I finished re-reading Neuromancer yesterday.

anairdna October 2 2008, 02:19:49 UTC

i think everyone on my FL who did this has had Stranger In A Strange Land on their lists as well.

obviously i know people with good taste.

manzilla October 2 2008, 03:13:33 UTC

Well, I think the key to the question is UNEXPECTED impact. There are a lot of books that were major, but no one at all would have expected that out of ,i>Stranger. Heinlein certainly didn't.

supervenusfreak October 2 2008, 03:41:54 UTC

Excellent choice!

medievalneedle October 2 2008, 13:25:38 UTC

I'd have to say Stranger, but also perhaps Snow Crash?

manzilla October 2 2008, 14:04:02 UTC

I can agree with that. Someone else on my F-list said that one as well.

My thing is the word unexpected. I mean as influential as Neuromancer turned out to be, Snow Crash would be slightly less surpriseing. But definitely a good answer! I personally thought Snow Crash was the more profound book of the two.

medievalneedle October 2 2008, 14:10:58 UTC

I guess it kind of depended on which one you got to first :) I loved Snow Crash. Neuro not so much.