Post AseFcefnEbPHWeMPnk by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AseDfr3DTFiSsJiMRE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-01T12:57:50Z
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I don’t understand. How does Gibson (William, writer) do it? He has spent pages in multiple books describing interesting antiquated elevators, unsettling interior decorating, upsetting fashion — and somehow he gets away with it in the sci fi story. It’s so indulgent, so off-topic, but it works. It’s good writing. I’m studying carefully. Thinking “I need to do this” Has a voice that makes exploring the bicoastal, pretentious (possibly alienating) things accessible exposed, tamed.
(DIR) Post #AseEmKoTpOpMsBTXxg by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-04-01T13:10:10Z
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@futurebird he technically has a Mastodon account. Hasn’t posted since 2023, but you could shake him down for some answers 👀
(DIR) Post #AseExU1TvWo8cbsBf6 by chris@abraham.su
2025-04-01T13:12:09Z
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@futurebird Huh?
(DIR) Post #AseFDTbvE9n7ybXmXw by SeaFury@aus.social
2025-04-01T13:15:02Z
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@futurebird I can’t read him anymore but love his ideas. Sometimes is too out there for me. I have tried reading The Peripheral about 4 times. Can’t. Although I have read Neuromancer and I was fine with that.
(DIR) Post #AseFES68KxbnZg8ky0 by irizoris@hcommons.social
2025-04-01T13:15:16Z
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@futurebird Ask him! He is here but not here? @GreatDismalAlso on Bluesky: @GreatDismal.bsky.social
(DIR) Post #AseFcefnEbPHWeMPnk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-01T13:19:39Z
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@chris I’m just being jealous of how William Gibson describes things again. And stalling from writing.
(DIR) Post #AseFxYwFkadLp01rO4 by wtrmt@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T13:23:25Z
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@futurebird I love his work, my brother hates it! I don't understand why.
(DIR) Post #AseGaZmIYyzxicyZDE by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2025-04-01T13:30:24Z
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@futurebird are you reading the Bigend Books?
(DIR) Post #AseH1LAmyLKyF0C3DE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-01T13:35:20Z
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@MishaVanMollusq Yes. Annoyed that “blue ants” weren’t what I hoped for, but largely like this series.
(DIR) Post #AseHBdiWsdPmeOt0Nc by mhoye@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T13:37:10Z
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@futurebird I think the secret is that the shapes and details of these seemingly unrelated off-piste anecdotes play the role of a kind of distant-echo foreshadowing. They are interesting in their own right, but in some sense they're also same shape as the larger story, in some sort of resonant harmony.
(DIR) Post #AseIFNkEJ8fAE11uvA by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2025-04-01T13:49:03Z
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@futurebird i read them out of order.The first time.14 months later I read them again.In order.He’s writing at the border of Durrell Country in those novels.And it’s not quite science fiction
(DIR) Post #AseKpWPzjj7BSWvSN6 by chris@abraham.su
2025-04-01T14:17:59Z
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@futurebirdI fully agree with you. I'm constantly amazed. Which book were you talking about. I hope you were talking about Cayce Pollard! :)
(DIR) Post #AseN9AyJNqM2dzTcK8 by suetanvil@freeradical.zone
2025-04-01T14:43:56Z
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@futurebird Nobody knows. He's the one SF writer who can do infodumps well.
(DIR) Post #AseNYHpd11YD9wOASG by mhoye@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T13:42:00Z
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@futurebird I need to pull out the book to check my impressions against the text but: Cayce encounters people selling Kurta calculators (small, dark, sinister & complex machine, actually a puzzle artefact) then later is in conversation about the weird macguffin-movie with someone (the movie clips are short, dark, sinister, complex, actually a puzzle artefact), and both in turn are analgous to the shape and macguffins and story arcs of the larger work. In a sense they're wayfinding tools.
(DIR) Post #AseNYIfjtHEblYlmgC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-01T14:48:30Z
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@mhoye And the horrible nazi plane they dug out of the mud in Russia— given the moment of history we are facing THAT one fave me the bad body shiver— thought it was dead and buried but someone is always trying to dig it up again.
(DIR) Post #AseOR5ltYZb3gMmAOe by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-04-01T14:58:06Z
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@futurebird tbh it's the only thing I miss about his writing. The rest of it, I enjoyed back in the day, but I'd rather not read it again.
(DIR) Post #AsfIPZDwg2glshkIYy by cshlan@dawdling.net
2025-04-02T01:25:14Z
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@futurebird I still have the image of someone flicking a cigarette stuck in my head from one of his books I probably read decides ago. He's a little like Tolkien in that the world is somewhat of a character in his books.