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Kyle
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Sooooo, let’s see if any of the many dangling threads can be tied together into something like a narrative. Marley goes to space and sees where the box came from, Bobby and Turner meet, something about Jammer surviving, Conroy being next on the hit list and Virek already dead before the sort-of climax. And Angie gets to be a voodoo god and also a scandal-prone celebrity; who was Tally Isham again? Does not compute.
— Feb 07, 2026 04:17PM
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Kyle
is on page 231 of 324
I think I got this figured our, not the plot or characters’ motivations or anything that would make sense in a narrative but I am beginnng to sense what Gibson was trying to accomplish with this second novel, mainly not falling into the trap of “more of the same” for his break-out Neuromancer, and a giant swing in the direction of not being much of a novel. Waiting to see how the final fourth pays off.
— Dec 02, 2025 10:35PM
Kyle
is on page 154 of 324
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
Kyle
is on page 77 of 324
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
