In Mona Lisa Overdrive, the one I’m reading right now, there’s a character who’s obsessed with determining the shape of cyberspace. Other characters think he’s a kook. But it seems like exactly the sort of thing some people might get obsessed with and see as deeply meaningful.
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Huh, sounds interesting. Never really liked Asimov's view that someday all religion would be seen as antiquated superstition.
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I always imagine Asimov would've been a reddit Athiest if he'd been in this generation
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This is why Pattern Recognition is my favorite of his books. It’s *all* the human part. Clothing, disgust, the way a key feels in the hand, anxiety.
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Oh the anxiety is so well articulated in this book
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I revisited the Sprawl books for the first time since high school this year and was extremely pleased at how well they held up.
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Great point. I wonder if the abundance of self expression that even extends to cyberspace avatars or IRL body mods are a direct response to the oppressive megacorps and their branding encompassing so much of those worlds. People create art in the few spaces left that they own.
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I read Neuromancer young (probably younger than I should have! 12 or 13) and the way it ends on a devastatingly human note made a big impression on me
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Definitely. Terrific final stretch. Perfect last line.
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