Originally posted by Fashionpolice: a journalist has already deemed it "The Bigend Trilogy"
I find it fitting.
That's beacuse "the New York trilogy" was already taken by Auster. The two previous ones were named for a place rather than a person. though I suppose one could define Bigend as a place unto himself. His whole worldview and what not.
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I wonder if google has a way to search for the most use of the word apophenia at one website? Other than obscure psychiatric abstracts, I'm sure this place would win.
Whatever happened to 'random association'? Or are only computers allowed to do that?
The more I think about the more fitting Hasa's idea of "The Blue Ant Trilogy" seems because the other Triologies "Sprawl" and "Bridge" are places. In this new series the erasure of borders and globalization causes corporations to be place. Dorotea is loyal to career and corporation not country. So "The Blue Ant Trilogy " seems most fitting to me now but I still haven't finished _SC_ yet.
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Because these books have been about the way 'cyberspace' has left the terminals behind and become embedded in the world around us. Invisible becoming visible and ubiquitous. Inside out. No place and every place. Everywhere.
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I like the Hotel trilogy. It fits with Sprawl and Bridge, normally regular-sounding places that take on totally different meanings in the context of Gibson's novels.
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See, I'll start referring to it as "The Bigend Trilogy" when I start writing about it. Maybe I'll start the academic naming trend and get it on track.
At least Bigend is funny. Eversion is too ponderous.
Of course, such a name assumes Bigend will even show up in the next novel. Or that the next novel will be remotely related to the previous one (in the same way Spook Country isn't precisely related to PR except through Bigend).
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Originally posted by Justy: See, I'll start referring to it as "The Bigend Trilogy" when I start writing about it. Maybe I'll start the academic naming trend and get it on track.
At least Bigend is funny. Eversion is too ponderous.
Of course, such a name assumes Bigend will even show up in the next novel. Or that the next novel will be remotely related to the previous one (in the same way Spook Country isn't precisely related to PR except through Bigend).
Gibson has a pattern ingrained on his psyche and I don't think he'll stray from it unless he goes back, recognizes the patters and consciously decides to obliterate it.
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I would differentiate between "a pattern ingrained in Gibson's psyche," and the qualities that make novels into a series. Your pattern would interrelate *all* of Gibson's novels if only through Gibson's common obsessions, points of view, and general leanings, and so-on--a perfectly valid effort--while sequels, in addition to thematics, etc., would have to have at least a couple of characters in common.
The Bigend character, between PR and SC, is too well developed to become a mere marker of author, the way the names Cherrycoke and Seaman "Pig" Bodine are to Pynchon.
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