From:	Arcady arcady@***.net
Subject:	More Things
Date:	Sat, 31 Jul 1999 14:11:57 -0700

> > "Hard Wired" (might have been Gibson, I don't own a copy myself, but
I
do
> > know that it was SBed for CP2020) that does a REALLY good job of
explaining
> > how a rigger feels. If you haven't read it, it is worth it just for
the
> > descriptions of Pony Boy's panzer (a form of LAV, I think) becoming his
> > "body" and how he used it.
>
> That would be Walter Jon Williams , *not* Gibson. Whenever cyberpunk
> (genre, not game) is mentioned, people start thinking he's responsible for
everything.

The general test is:

read a cyberpunk novel.

if it was good and engaging with a deep point/moral behind it was not
Gibson.
If it was a cheap action thriller with a see through plot and writing that
looks like it was intended for a Hollywood flick and a point/moral that if
there was obvious and shallow then it was Gibson.


Gibson's only written what? 6 cyberpunk novels.

Neuromancer, Virtual Light, Burning Chrome, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive,
Idoru.

That's a lot of published work; but it's only a tiny percentage of the
genre. And if you've read one of the books above you've read them all.

Assuming that Hardwired was written by Gibson is like assuming that Dracula
and Frankenstein were written by Steven King.

The difference is quality is about equivalent as well.

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