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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 9257949" data-attributes="member: 30438">I finished reading Gibson's Burning Chrome. Great stuff, and the short stories that venture beyond cyberpunk are just as memorable. The Ballardesque Gernsback Continuum and The Belonging Kind (with John Shirley) easily stand next to Burning Chrome, Dogfight, and Johnny Mnemonic.Now I'm reading Hannes Bok's Beyond the Golden Stair. I don't like that there are spiders on the cover, but some authors are worth making an exception for.That is one good thing....Sir Terry was prolific.For me, it's a bunch of things. It was probably the first book I read that gave my LOTR feelings while still being entirely its own thing. It's the age at which I read it. The way it opened vistas and challenged established views (inasmuch as a teenager can have an established view). The depth of imagination on display.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 9257949, member: 30438"] I finished reading Gibson's Burning Chrome. Great stuff, and the short stories that venture beyond cyberpunk are just as memorable. The Ballardesque Gernsback Continuum and The Belonging Kind (with John Shirley) easily stand next to Burning Chrome, Dogfight, and Johnny Mnemonic. Now I'm reading Hannes Bok's Beyond the Golden Stair. I don't like that there are spiders on the cover, but some authors are worth making an exception for. That is one good thing....Sir Terry was prolific. For me, it's a bunch of things. It was probably the first book I read that gave my LOTR feelings while still being entirely its own thing. It's the age at which I read it. The way it opened vistas and challenged established views (inasmuch as a teenager can have an established view). The depth of imagination on display. [/QUOTE]

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