Have only read the first forty pages, but already enjoying the aesthetic and style of this particular work of speculative fiction. In fact, I find the prose in this book more palatable than something like Solaris, for example. Been on a bit of a SF novel binge after reading 2001 A Space Odyssey for the first time about a month ago.
Originally Posted by Krypt
i shoplifted a copy of this when i was about 15 or 16 and it absolutely 100% changed my life.
its hard to know how it will land all these decades later but at the time it was completely batshit out of left field crazy with the tech, vibe, morality, so on.
absolutely 1000% going to reread any day now, nice culture bump.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
btw he published a series of short stories 2 years later called burning chrome and its also absolutely fucking subime.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
oh also neal stephenson is a hack, for anyone curious. great visionary but a really C-tier writer. which i suppose is why the masses adore him.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
I will have to read these at some point
i shoplifted a copy of this when i was about 15 or 16 and it absolutely 100% changed my life.
its hard to know how it will land all these decades later but at the time it was completely batshit out of left field crazy with the tech, vibe, morality, so on.
absolutely 1000% going to reread any day now, nice culture bump.
Lol shoplifted, can’t say changed your life for the better, alone on a hill, no family.
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Lol shoplifted, can’t say changed your life for the better, alone on a hill, no family.
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