(July 28, 2022)
He coigned "CyberSpace"
and made the change stick (no pun)
dense chewy read - "Agency"
follows "The Periphery"
*(William Gibson's first book "Neuromancer" won the holy triad of science fiction - Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick - awards. It sat on my To-Read stack's first tier, first book for more than a decade. I read instead Necromancer by Gordon Dickson: a fine rousing read by the man who invented/wrote The Great (or was it Final?) Encyclopedia to half-cap a glorious and thought-full career just half done. Now comes my petard. I cracked open Neuromancer and knew this birthday-year boy stunned my lazy eyes and unsludged my even lazier brain. Did several more of Gibson's works and knew I had to make up a new stack and read them all - in order - I mean he can't last much longer, judging by the lines in his author's photo. I am halfway through Agency - well, okay, halfway through the first third...and I wanna quit right now and go back and read the stepped-over "The Periphery" which is Agency's precursor as it were. Yeah, he's that good. Not gonna go it, though. I'll take my medicine and sneak "Peri" out-of-order. The man's been scribblin' this stuff nearly 40 years with the same literary agent. Weird. What's weirdest is each and every one of the books I used to bypass that first William Gibson offering was in fact worthy of the charge. 'Til I read Neuromancer. How good is this guy? Make you wanna slap The Matrix off your DVD shelf and scream for some high justice, here! Hear!)
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