Yes, I know: the Polish pirate station where they read Neuromancer over Bach and so on...



PR came before her book?
Hers 2004, PR 2003?? I have again lent my copy of PR-- this has got to stop.
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Certainly the subject matter is the same, but at the end of her book she doesn't list PR among her "sources"...probably she and WG worked in parallel on similar ideas.

Aisha

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Originally posted by Aisha:
PR came before her book?
Hers 2004, PR 2003?? I have again lent my copy of PR-- this has got to stop.
...probably she and WG worked in parallel on similar ideas.

Aisha

yeah PR 2003, PC 2004, but as she say she had probably started writing it before pattern recognition was published. i know for ages in her diary on her site she was talking about her research into the cryptography and natural remedies and that kind of stuff, which all feature in the book as well.

Try Jack Womack -- Random Acts of Senseless Violence. I also second the Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash or Diamond Age. SF-ish, yes, but driven by character and ideas more than technology -- and stylistically akin to Gibson, I think.

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Try Jack Womack -- Random Acts of Senseless Violence

That book was really moving. But it put me in a weird place for about a week after finishing it.

It's supposed to. Thank you for the kind words.

Thank you for writing your words. And thank you for coming to these boards to speak to your fans.

And for encouraging WG to finish PR, according to the statement at the back of the book.

Thank you, Dubliner, and Archie, yes, Mr Womack, I like weird places.

Going here next week...
With Random Acts if I can find it in Oslo.

Aisha

It's struck me that you may enjoy The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon; it has a very similar plot structure, and a few of the central characters even seem slightly analogous (Bigend/Inverarity, Cayce/Oedipa Maas...)