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From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lady Jestyr)
Subject: first time player needs moviue for indoctrination to game!
Date: Wed Sep 12 10:35:13 2001
At 04:54 PM 11/09/2001 -0400, Alex Rudnick wrote:
>Speaking of William Gibson and his work, I'd highly recommend _Idoru_ as
>well; it'd be especially helpful if you'd like to get into the media end
>of things in SR, but it has some wonderful city descriptions, organized
>crime, government corruption, corporate security, and some material that
>you could use in the Matrix. Colin Laney sounds like an Otaku that
>doesn't realize he's Otaku-ing with the way he finds "nodal points"...
>and perhaps most importantly, _Idoru_ has funny looking French research
>scientists.
>
>So _Idoru_ is good stuff for SR inspiration...

As is the semi-prequel, Virtual Light, and the third in the trilogy - All
Tomorrow's Parties - that ties the previous two together.

Lady Jestyr
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just
have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird
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