Cyberpunk

Borrowed a copy of William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” from the National Library. I’m currently at the end of chapter one of the book (haha). It’s been pretty good so far but I’m not quite so sure if it’s as revolutionary as it’s been hailed to be: the cyberpunk novel pioneer. I believe Alfred Bester achieved this years earlier in his 1956 novel “The Stars, My Destination” before cyberpunk was known as cyberpunk. What’s refreshing to me however, is the thrill of discovering the origins of the now common term “cyberspace”, and finding out what really was the Matrix.

As for Alfred Bester, who is in my list of top ten favourite authors, his book “The Demolished Man” reminds me so much of the film I’ve been wanting to watch for a long time: Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” based on a Philip K. Dick short story (another one of my fav authors). They both speculate on how murder can be stopped through the use of psychic abilities.

Finally the last thing I want to write about in this blog entry is how I am supposed to be cataloguing my CDs - which are in a complete mess at this moment - but am instead writng this blog abut wanting to do it. I discovered a few hours that my Jeff Beck “Blow By Blow” CD had been missing from its case. Was quite upset about this, so I wanted to spring clean:

1. Separate the Aerosmith’s from the Joni Mitchell’s and the Mitsuda Yasunori’s
2. Organise the Zeppelin concerts into chronological then alphebetical order

Subjects: Books 書物, Music 音楽

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Alfred Bester, cyberpunk, Gibson, Jeff Beck, library, lost, Matrix, Minority Report, PKD, psychic