I’ve read this[…]book[…]this year.
Glorious.
Liam Gibson…
He has a very specific set of abilities, obtained over the course of an enduring professional life…
I’ve read some stories with questionable world building, but this is something else.
The month is Compuary, which is a new cyber-month they added just for doing hacker stuff.
A what now? To do what again?
And they do sex stuff up there as well.
Reeeeealy?
There’s Baltimore Airport, lab-grown to be a swimsuit model but programmed to kill.
Obviously a complex character with depth.
There’s Crusty Silverware…
Say no more … please.
Infiltrate the dome and take out Harvard Pubence, the president of cops.
You son of a bitch, I’m in!
Tonight, Pubence is guest of honor at the 9th annual Rich Perverts’ Ball.
OMG! Stop I already said I was in!
My team jacked up on Tums 2
Seriously, I need to read this book or my life may never feel complete!
For anyone seeing this and wishing there really was a stupidly enjoyable satire of 1980s cyberpunk tropes:
It’s called Snow Crash.
Snow Crash is 100% over the top satire but also 100% enjoyable. When the first chapter of the book introduces you to your protagonist, Hiro Protagonist, you know you’re in for something a little off.
It is a story that knows exactly how stupid it is, and that means it can get away with anything. It’s just played so straight that half the target audience misses the joke. That’s like if Bored Of The Rings was somehow more popular and enduring than the Tolkein novels it mocked - the high-fantasy tropes are still there, and the book does function as a hero’s journey. It just stars Dildo Bugger and his son Frito.
The measure of any adaptation - if that somehow exits development hell, one of these decades - will be the car chase in the middle. If they show it, they’ve failed.
Guess I gotta go read Snow Crash then.
Snow Crash is a very good book by Neal Stephenson. The post is just about an invented parody of the genre.
Check out William Gibsons Neuromancer (which mote or less coined the genre), it sticks maybe more to OPs post IMO anyways.
Snow Crash is an extant parody of the genre, hence the recommendation.
The main character is named Hiro Protagonist.
If I was any more in, I’d be out the other side.
Lmao wtf is this real?
Nooooo! 😭 I so badly wanted this to be real. I had even looked it up by ISBN to try and order it. The ISBN is for a book titled Brute Orbit, if anybody is curious.
It reminded me of a strange book I read when I was young, an 80s sci-fi I think was called “the wizard of sunset strip”
I’d have absolutely believed this could have been a book by them
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/502308.The_Wizard_of_Sunset_Strip
When mutilated bodies begin turning up in Hollywood and the police are baffled, the young wizard Wydrune and his band–a beautiful cat burglar, a Cockney punk possessed by the spirit of Merlin, and Camelot’s last survivor–take the case
No but William Gibson does have a bunch of near future novels that i recommend
I think with ChatGPT and Tinder getting in bed together recently as well as advertisers creating their own AI influencers, the book Idoru is probably a pretty decent read for anyone who wants to give him a try
I’m so in. Where do I sign up. No, for real though, what is the name of this book. I must own a copy.
This book is made-up. Snow Crash is just the closest thing in real life, and it’s deliberately stupid in its own unique ways.
It’s the book where Hiro Protagonist, arguably the main character, gets harpooned out of his cozy life-or-death pizza delivery job and winds up saving anarcho-capitalist North America from the most evil force in the universe: the telephone company.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.
Oh, sad days. I will totally read Snow Crash still, but I was so ready for whatever nonsensical chaos OP’s book was pitching.
I’m already on Tums 3.
And they do sex stuff up there as well.
Brilliant.
Couldn’t help but read that in Garth Merenghi’s voice
I’ve read it, only thing I remember is the first chapter pizza delivery, gonna have to dig it out now and refresh myself of the rest of the story.
It’s fake but someone should use chatgpt to make it a thing.
https://twitter.com/Jackapedia_/status/1631106301286547456 https://twitter.com/Jackapedia_/status/1631272347687682050
This sounds like the parker novels, but in the future.
So futuristic it sounds like it was written by AI lol
Fun fact, this is the original pitch for Cyberpunk 2077
