Monday, September 24, 2007

Gibson Goodness



i tried to stay away from him for a long time. why? i can't explain, other than to say the awe, as voiced by others, surrounding him turned me off, completely. i have this deep seated aversion to "popular" things. i prefer to find things my way, quietly, if you catch my meaning. that was until i decided to sit down this past may and read an old, oft thumbed copy of neuromancer. i couldn't put it down. at first it seemed stiff, hard to visualize, but as it's hooks sunk deeper into me, i became to gibson idiosyncratic way of writing and i was converted. since may i've started through his bibliography in reverse. i next read spook country, not so please with it, that's not to say it wasn't good, but it seemed more of a novella or a short story taken too far. now i'm two-thirds done with pattern recognition, and i like it. a lot.

so much so, that i've started reading gibson's blog and i'm going through what information i can find about his other, non-book works. so i found this: the agrippa files

specifically this is what i thought was cool. download the appropriate format.

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