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Just had a realization.
I read Neuromancer so long ago that I no longer remember anything but the faintest broad strokes and colors, so Gibson's work isn't exactly fresh in my mind. But when I read this, I kept hearing it in Keanu Reeves' voice.
I wonder if his lines in Cyberpunk 2077 were done in an homage to William Gibson's style here.
And unrelated to that, looking at Gibson's prose here, I realize I could jam a lot of "flavor" into my own work in a smaller space if I took some notes on how he does it. Never too late to learn from a master, eh?
That means it's the perfect time to add those books to your backlog and reread them.
I've started rereading books I haven't cracked since the 90s and it's fantastic. I got to re-experience Snowcrash again from almost zero, same deal with KSR's Mars trilogy and all of DUNE. Gibson is coming up sometime soon, along with his more recent books that I haven't read yet.
Read Bruce Sterling, particularly Schismatrix Plus, he does crammed prose really well.