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Blade Runner? The movie, blade runner? "Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep" <— title of book movie was derived from…
Excellent movie; the backrounds in that movie were soooo good.
THe movie is de[pressing, though. Unfortunately. If you liked that, and you
read SF, perhaps you've read neuromancer and the rest of the Gobson books?
Great stuff. Also depressing. Is there a theme here? :^)
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
Ben,
Yes, it was a great movie (Blade Runner). While I've only read one book by
Phillip K. Dick (who I believe wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep"–not the one I read) and didn't really care for it, I have read some
of Gibson's books (I read _a lot_ of SF). While I find his stuff very
interesting, I also find his vision of the future very bleak and
depressing. The problem is that many of the things he writes about could
very well come to pass.
James Bayless
New Horizons Software, Inc.
Yep… but ignoring the doom and gloom in there, doesn't he have an
absolutely _brilliant_ sense of invention? His visualization is just
awesome (to me). The funny thing is – he's not a techno person; he's a
poet. Just goes to show you!
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
But what could a poetic technoid do? Would Gibson be a more interesting
writer if he was more technically literate? For instance, I don't remember
him creating any devices based on nanotechnology, which would certainly fit
in with the advances in genetics and computers that he posits.
um… I do remember some very small robots leading the girl around
straylight; something like that implies a great deal of miniature work.
Nano, no. But real small. And I dunno if it would fit or not. I really
don't. But it certainly is a good point. There are some other techie things
that are happening today that he either missed or gave a pass to – and I
have no problem with that, because he was able to make me percieve his
world as seamless.
Something that Asimov, Pohl, and (especially) Pournelle regularly slip up
on. Things you expect are techno screwups in popular stuff like "Hunt for
Red October"… and they are there; while Clancy is a fun writer, he's next
to clueless about nuts and bolts of computers/electronics – and he doesn't
take the time or effort to get it right. But in SF, I _expect_ the author
to have taken a _real_ good shot at getting current tech right, and future
tech extrapolatively reasonable – which of course is somewhat in the eye of
the beholder, but not completely.
James Hogan is a good one for fascinating future tech… he tries hard. The
point I was making about Gibson had not as much to do with the fact that he
was making predictions, but that they were clean – and he hadn't the
backround (as far as I can see) for that.
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
Funny you should mention Hogan, he's one of the other (few) SF writers I've
read in past months. He came recommended by a libertarian/anarchist friend
of mine, particularly for his time travel scenarios. Have you done any
fiction writing, Ben? I've got a copy of Guy Wright's SF/F book, should I
hunt the dusty book stores for any of your titles?
Don't hunt. Yet. :^) I've got two done, in fact… one is sorta in
chicken-hold, the other is gonna get punched into "flow", re-wrangled, and
then released before the first one… So there will be two out in
(hopefully) reasonably short times between. Of course, I have immense
amounts of free time to get this done. :^)
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
If you check out your local record store, you'll find that Vangelis has
FINALLY released some of the tracks he did for Blade Runner on his latest
BEST OF album. That album is titled "Themes". I highly recommend it.
-Rad
Great news! I remember an old roommate of mine who bought the Bladerunner
"soundtrack" album, thinking it was the real music from the movie. Silly
him. I'll look for it! Now, where can I find Sean Young's address? 🙂
I bought the same record your roommate did a long time ago too, what a
dissapointment! Oh well. Oh and Sean Young says hi. 🙂
-Rad