Could all Tomorrows Parties be Gibson's best work yet? I have read it 3 times now and I find that, with the exception of the portions dealing with the two women real ONE news casters, the work is a masterpiece. I do hope that Gibson will go back to Rydel at some point, as I love his persona in the books. He is an everyman who lives in a future far out of his control. The future from the point of a security guard. In the end, are convenience stores going to be the new airport. I wonder what happened to the girl once she hit the street. I'm sure there was a job waiting for her in the closest strip club, or massage parlour.
The future of people moving will be at the "lucky Dragon"

How can ATP be his best work when Count Zero IS his best work?

That said I did very much like Rydell and Chevette and Chia. And Laney. And the big guy that says, "Need to carbo load". And the Russian werewolves. And....

Personally I found PR and ATP kinda weak (for Gibson! to be clear, not weak weak, but "for my favorite author" weak. It's like being disappointed in your own children, you still love them anyway), but I've not reread ATP recently....

For anything pre-PR, I too feel ATP is his best, although I'm actually fonder of Idoru in terms of depictive eye-candy.

ATP was Gib's first work where the characters really stayed with me after the plot folded. Particularly the orphan boy watch savant. (It occurs to me now that Gib perhaps put himself into that character more than any of them. They share obsessions, at least.)

AllI know is I left ATP with that young chap snug in my heart. I really CARED about him. I also cared about the assassin dude, and really really hoped he'd kill the evil bad guy.

And Boomzilla runs around my imagination in my sleep smoking cigarettes and drinking Duke Slurp'ems: the foaming slurried ice drink you play while you drink!

... the orphan boy watch savant. (It occurs to me now that Gib perhaps put himself into that character more than any of them ...

I agree that that comes across as a clear reference to himself. It's the collecting theme (he's written about ebay culture of course) that he's used quite effectively elsewhere. Interesting how collecting works as a literary device that conveys wealth, exotic, sinister.

Pattern Recognition is his best, then either ATP or Count Zero, though, a while back, I would have put Count Zero last, as it happens.

Which news reporters are you talking about? Tessa was freelance.

And what became of Boomzilla? The trilogy is complete. So we'll probably never know.

the phrase "President Boomzilla" makes me smile long and hard.

"Bitches better start making my candy again or them Japs are gonna get invaded by Prez Boomzilla!"

i loved the sound of that candy, reminded me of the unmatched bliss of eating those candies that are powder and you dip a hard candy stick into them to eat it?
mmmmmm

Boomzilla grow up to be The Finn?

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Originally posted by green-robot:
i loved the sound of that candy, reminded me of the unmatched bliss of eating those candies that are powder and you dip a hard candy stick into them to eat it?
mmmmmm

I don't know those... wait, maybe I do. Damn, can't tell if I'm remembering an actual candy or imagining one.

Can you post a pic of them?

I believe it is these GR refers to:
http://www.supercoolstuff.com/items/candy/cn011.htm

or that type at least.

Google "dipping sticks candy" if you want to know more.....

Yes, I've had those.