Television Sky
Jun. 13th, 2012 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javasaurus"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
---William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984
I just started re-reading Neuromancer (again), this time an audiobook of an annniversary edition. The author's introduction points focuses on how science fiction about the near future can become anachronistic when reality diveges significantly from a novel's predicted world. The intro points out that cell phones are not ubiquitous, and there is even a scene where a key element is a row of ringing pay phones. The USSR still exists. And the opening line (quoted above) will not make sense to many of today's readers. Still, it's a really great opening line.
---William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984
I just started re-reading Neuromancer (again), this time an audiobook of an annniversary edition. The author's introduction points focuses on how science fiction about the near future can become anachronistic when reality diveges significantly from a novel's predicted world. The intro points out that cell phones are not ubiquitous, and there is even a scene where a key element is a row of ringing pay phones. The USSR still exists. And the opening line (quoted above) will not make sense to many of today's readers. Still, it's a really great opening line.
