Neuromancer — In Production | Apple TV+

[Umbran]

Oh, and...

Big tech company doing Neuromancer. Not ironic at all. No siree.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I guess I'd better get off my butt and read this finally.

 

[Kaodi]

You know things are getting bad when granddaddy Neuromancer is finally getting a live-action adaptation.

 

[Umbran]

You know things are getting bad when granddaddy Neuromancer is finally getting a live-action adaptation.

If you mean, it is obvious that the themes will resonate with the audience, now, then yeah.

 

[The Soloist]

Need to re-read. Very exciting.

 

[Autumnal]

I reread the Sprawl trilogy a few years ago, but I may do so again. I found it had aged very well.

Specific recommendation: the 30th anniversary edition of Neuromancer has an introduction by Gibson that is well worth reading. He has some interesting things to point out, like there not being any evidence the US survives as an entity.

I was recently told that Neuromancer has sold more than a million copies. That would be over the past two decades, and I assume in either North American editions or English-language editions. Abroad, it’s managed to get itself translated into most of the languages books are translated into, though not yet, as far as I know, Chinese or Arabic.* [Definitely Chinese now.]

This is something like having an adult child one never hears from, but who evidently does quite well, travels widely, and seems to meet interesting people.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

He has some interesting things to point out, like there not being any evidence the US survives as an entity.

Nailed it!

 

[Autumnal]

Nailed it!

For your more detailed vindication:

Another vast omission is my failure to have quietly collapsed the Soviet Union and swept the rubble offstage when nobody was looking.

Though there was a strategic reason for my not having done that. I had already done it to the United States, which cannot be proven to exist in the world of Neuromancer. It’s deliberately never mentioned as such, and one vaguely gathers that it’s somehow gone sideways in a puff of what we today would call globalization, to be replaced by some less dangerous combine of large corporations and city-states. Having disappeared the USA, I thought I’d better have the USSR in there for the sake of continuity.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, he was wrong about multinational corporations being less dangerous.

 

[Autumnal]

Yup.