>>3
Stephenson cannot properly end novels. His endings are always missing just a little bit. Snow Crash has his best ending by far, but it still feels incomplete. Almost as if his story advanced too fast and the characters got away from him.
>>40
He has been recommended to me. I should definitely check him out. I've heard it's a little bit psychotic though. In a good way? Or am I thinking of a different French author?
>>31
Example: 1984. Correct, but the issue that has been brought up is far too complex to effectively summarize. Much less, could you come to any accord regarding this subject. And that isn't even considering that this is happening on 4chan. T_T
SEE: Opinion. \O*pin"ion\, n. [F., from L. opinio. See Opine.]
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
Like =/= Dislike
Furthermore, Gibson cannot be appreciated merely on a novel to novel basis. The Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) is probably the best cyberpunk story out there so far... but his other work, most especially the Idol Trilogy, is a great leap forward. As the technology his fiction was based on became real, he re-upped and took things to another level- casting nanotechnology as a new frontier.
I'm not sure that it can be considered "cyberpunk", but his most recent novel, Pattern Recognition is like a present day science fiction where all the elements are real but compounded and fractured into some myriad of truth versus fiction... and it has a great emotional undertone. Urban sprawl is becoming all too real and the jet-lagged, cyber-emotional world that he envisioned as a fictional future is becoming real. Throw in global terrorism and a side of metaphysical mumbo but not jumbo and voila. Epic win.
/j.