From: | Anders Swenson anders@**********.com |
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Subject: | OT Re: Interesting... |
Date: | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:27:23 -0800 |
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.net>
To: shadowrn@*********.org <shadowrn@*********.org>
Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 4:37 PM
Subject: RE: OT Re: Interesting...
>From: Mark A Shieh
>Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 1:30 PM
>
>>> You want *good* cyberpunk, read Neal Stephenson or Bruce Bethke
>>> or Raphael Carter.
Ya, Ya, but if Gibson hadn't published, the genre would be even more
marginalized than it is now.
>>I have to disagree about Neal Stephenson's works.
>
>Your option, but you can't tell me that SNOW CRASH isn't about 1000 times
>better than NEUROMANCER, has a better plot, and is better cyberpunk to
boot.
>Well, I suppose you can tell me that, but you'll never make me believe it.
>
>>He may be one of my favorite authors, but that doesn't mean
>>he writes good cyberpunk.
>
>Guess it depends on what you consider good cyberpunk. Stephenson's work is
>by far better cyberpunk than Gibson's.
>
>>Has he written anything since Diamond Age (my least favorite of his
books)?
Diamond Age is the best thing for mainstream SF since I dno't know what, but
it's NOT CP.
>
>Not to my knowledge, but I've been awfully broke of late and so haven't
been
>to many bookstores.
I haven't seen anything either, but Stehenson isn't the fastest of writers.
BTW, anybody willing to bet we'll see any more from the guy who wrote When
Gravity Fails? --Anders