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Just ordered a Kindle sample of David Williams's The Mirrored Heavens. Won't be able to pick it up until this weekend when the Kindle will be back within range of Sprint satellites, though.
In the process of tracking down the sample, found this review on Amazon:
Just because a character runs the internet with their mind, and there's a cyborg involved, does not make the work cyberpunk. As someone who's read not only Neuromancer, but Hardwired, and the Enigma Variations as well as the precusors Shock Wave Rider and Cold Cash War as well as dozens of other works in the Genre I think I can define it. Cyberpunk has cyborgs, mind hackers, and even a dystopian future like this book. It also, however, has A PLOT it has CHARACTERS AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.
I can't help but think that this guy needs to reread Mirrorshades and rethink this. Don't get me wrong, plot and character are terrific things, but some of my favorite stories in that collection were light on both. Read the rest of the review, I suppose, if you're interested, but I don't much care for the tight noose that he puts around cyberpunk. It worked because it didn't have rules.
In the process of tracking down the sample, found this review on Amazon:
Just because a character runs the internet with their mind, and there's a cyborg involved, does not make the work cyberpunk. As someone who's read not only Neuromancer, but Hardwired, and the Enigma Variations as well as the precusors Shock Wave Rider and Cold Cash War as well as dozens of other works in the Genre I think I can define it. Cyberpunk has cyborgs, mind hackers, and even a dystopian future like this book. It also, however, has A PLOT it has CHARACTERS AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.
I can't help but think that this guy needs to reread Mirrorshades and rethink this. Don't get me wrong, plot and character are terrific things, but some of my favorite stories in that collection were light on both. Read the rest of the review, I suppose, if you're interested, but I don't much care for the tight noose that he puts around cyberpunk. It worked because it didn't have rules.