I love that you are doing a Gibson re-read. I did one during the pandemic shutdown with a group of online friends, mostly tech types, and there was a significant divide between those who evaluated based on whether the tech was tenable or well-explained and the people (like me) who were more interested in evaluating the language, plot, characters, and premise. My favorites are the last two trilogies, especially Pattern Recognition. I also enjoyed the TV version of The Peripheral, I wish another streaming service would have picked it up after Amazon cancelled it.
I can imagine reading with people would be fun, I think my first reads were so close in the time they were written, I didn't notice the stuff that seems anachronistic to me then. And I definitely like the later ones the best, and with you I was sad they didn't pick up another season after The Peripheral.
I love that you are doing a Gibson re-read. I did one during the pandemic shutdown with a group of online friends, mostly tech types, and there was a significant divide between those who evaluated based on whether the tech was tenable or well-explained and the people (like me) who were more interested in evaluating the language, plot, characters, and premise. My favorites are the last two trilogies, especially Pattern Recognition. I also enjoyed the TV version of The Peripheral, I wish another streaming service would have picked it up after Amazon cancelled it.
I can imagine reading with people would be fun, I think my first reads were so close in the time they were written, I didn't notice the stuff that seems anachronistic to me then. And I definitely like the later ones the best, and with you I was sad they didn't pick up another season after The Peripheral.
Amazing color in the roses!