jddunn
Boston
A story about this — 6 years ago
NOT WORTH CONSUMING
The writing’s tight, the proposed future is sufficiently realized and stylized, all gritty and noir, but it just leaves me cold. Characterization seemed to be lacking, and I just didn’t much care what happened to anyone in the end, whereas I very much did with Neuoromancer, which seemed a much more fully-realized novel to me. Maybe I’ve just run into Gibson a bit too late, at a time when he seems less visionary and more obvious in light of how technology has advanced. His strengths as far as whizbang futurism seem less evident to me here, and his weaknesses in character and relationships much more pronounced.
