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JohnBem
Posted 2016-05-14 7:13 AM (#13576 - in reply to #12872)
Subject: Re: Punk's Not Dead Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania		I've finished Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson, which concludes his Sprawl trilogy. Thoughts are over in my review. Amusingly, the Library of Congress data in the front of my edition lists Gibson's birthdate as 1914. Either that's a typo, or Gibson is truly over 100, or he's uploaded his consciousness into some great orbiting AI somewhere.

This takes me to the halfway point of the challenge, and we're not even halfway through the year, so I'm in good shape to finish on time, even though I frequently allow myself to be distracted by other books not in the challenge, including some that are not even in the WWE database (*gasp!*) (I'm also JohnBem over at Goodreads). I thought I was going to read Burning Chrome next, but after three of Gibson's books, my brain wants a different flavor. So I'm next going with Approaching Oblivion by Harlan Ellison.

I discovered Ellison in junior high school. I've read Approaching Oblivion before, but somewhere in junior high or high school. I don't really consider this a re-read then, because that was over 30 years ago, and who the hell can remember much from that long ago? I have no idea why Approaching Oblivion is tagged as cyberpunk and I'm curious to find out. Onward!

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