Slipping back into a William Gibson novel, stylish, quirky, defies the laws of physics, and yet? The taut prose, highly stylized in a minimalist, stripped down way?
At once the future, and current, too. Favorite author apocrypha? The term “cyber space” was first used in his literature, but was first written on a typewriter — not a computer.
Trent Reznor (?) dropped two albums for free, and I snagged them, confusing Nine Inch Nails music with mistrust and lack of evidence. Listening to the “Industrial Ambient,” I realized those albums were like the last couple of William Gibson novels I’ve read, just give it some time, there’s background building within deeply yet minimally stylistic and nuanced set of frames.
Then, this is the second book in as many days, that has a motorcycle scene in it, but this one? Strangely evocative of a Hunter Thompson passage, about Highway 101 in California, when the strange music starts.
Otherwise, this was just too long a ride, at night on the 101, nothing to see but asphalt and bumpers, illuminated by headlights and taillights.” Page 294.
Then, of the same genre, at one time? Hardwired, which, now in retrospect, reminds me of decades old slot machine called Haywire. There’s a connection.
Reading notes. Interactive fiction.
Good book, excellent if one is fan of the series.
Think there was a Blade Runner (movie) vibe to the earlier novel, The Peripheral.
Same kind essence, a number of different “feelings” to this one. Satisfying, for me.