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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Neuromancer
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Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 15:05:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 15:05:27 1984
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| Neuromancer, William Gibson, Ace Specials, $2.95 ppb.
| 
| This book seems like a three way cross between Bladerunner (the movie),
| True Names by Vinge, and the Ophiuchi Hotline by Varley.
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Don't forget "Coils", by Zelazny & Saberhagen, or "Fireship" by Joan Vinge.

"Neuromancer" had a fairly convincing social milieu, a good deal more complex
than "Fireship" (although therefore not as elegant), and the technology is more
convincing than the (totally unjustified) various one-off ESPs of "Coils".

Rob Warnock

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