What makes the #SprawlTrilogy urgently relevant today: Gibson explored AI autonomy, corporate dominance, and human-machine fusion decades before ChatGPT and surveillance capitalism. His vision isn’t escapist sci-fi—it’s a mirror of our technological present, showing where we’ve already arrived.

After a few unsatisfying reads, lastly Peng Shepherd’s The Cartographers, and abandoning Wheel of Time, I’m going for repetition of the familiar. It’s been a decade since the last read and I first read it in 1989—but it’s time to re-read Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy. I have read almost everything he’s written and read Blue Ant numerous times.

I’m interested to see how it feels in 2025.

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WIP #gamedev #mnemonic #gibson #neuromancer #sprawltrilogy #musicsoftware #edm #techno #keanu

https://youtu.be/NU4euh-Qkd0?si=rrJIOq-iMwXjTg3K

Halfway through my reread of the #SprawlTrilogy by #WilliamGibson. While #Neuromancer pretty much launched #Cyberpunk I’ve always liked #CountZero more. Perhaps Bobby was more relatable to me. Seems like yesterday I was browsing the bookshelves in John Menzies. Still have the originals I bought all those years ago. Saving up was a pain, that £10 a week from stocking the veggies at Wm Low didn’t go far even as a 13 year old!

@GreatDismal's first book of the #SprawlTrilogy that spawned #Cyberpunk culture is getting the Apple TV treatment.

https://boingboing.net/2022/12/01/william-gibsons-neuromancer-coming-to-apple-tv.html

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