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The Sprawl is a fitting analogy, more like a seedy underbelly of the matrix flipped upside-down and less like a fictitious version of the real world. This analogy matches how Gibson writes his characters: Turner, Marly and Bobby are simply nodes running their own algorithmic program for some mysterious prime mover, who just do as they are told without much of a clue why as the reader. Then in runs the Finn déjà vu.
— Aug 16, 2025 10:19PM
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Prescient as ever, especially reading this novel nearly forty years after it was published, Gibson delves into the “unthinkably complex consensual hallucination” (p. 50) with the same disinterested ennui as many of us today view our social media, something that is always on and judging us. His writing style is a disjointed mix of hardboiled espionage with art-world romance, as if he had way-too-early GenAI tools.
— Jun 28, 2025 10:01AM
