I've loved William Gibson's work since I was a teen. I still remember the first time I read Neuromancer. I couldn't get it out of my mind, I'd never read anything so odd and exciting. I loved the futuristic yet broken world where it's set, and, I've returned to it and its (somewhat) sequels time and time again. Really, I've probably read Neuromancer 25 times at least, that's how much I adore it. It never gets old. I remember the first time my then-young son tried to read it but just wasn't there yet, just a bit too young, and, he's not a big reader of fiction, he prefers nonfiction books entirely. I've talked about this book so much that he felt he had to at least try it. I was glad when he returned to it a few years later and finished it. I think he had the same look on his face that I did when trying to speak about it afterwards. Confusingly fascinating, but from his perspective, a little old, bc he's grown up with broadband internet 24/7 and a Smartphone in his pocket his whole life. When I first read Neuromancer, nothing like that existed at all so maybe it was easier for me to imagine that world, not really knowing what it was like. I can't say enough good things about Neuromancer or William Gibson at all. I enjoyed The Peripheral and was happy to see it renewed for a second season. Really, after The Matrix came out in 1999 (and with Keanu Reeves having played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic) I didn't think there was a chance in heck that Neuromancer would ever be successfully adapted or ever find its audience in film, even amongst Cyberpunk fans. I'm happy to hear there's still a chance for it. As you said, it's far too important of a book to be forgotten and needs new readers forever and always. (edited for spelling)
There. Behind sailors in short-sleeved khaki. Dark hair, mirrored glasses, dark clothing, slender... And gone. Then Case was running, bent low, dodging between bodies. The first appearance of Molly, and someone you never want to be tailing you... Lol. Neuromancer hit me the same way, it was street, it was dirty, I've never encountered anything like it from my readings. Molly... ❤
After I read Neuromancer, I read Gibson's "Burning Chrome', that explains many of the concepts and terms used in the later Neuromancer. For anyone who wants a bit of hand-holding, start with Burning Chrome. For more of a challenge, go straight to Neuromancer. I never felt any film captured the atmosphere of "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Cops & robbers space western style movies boil down to the hero vs. 'the system' yet fail to capture the concept of Gibson's insidious Zaibatsu - corporations so powerful that they control the world like nation-states. Thank you for including so many films with so many details about their development!
Very thoroughly researched and well-presented. Neuromancer may be the kind of work that ultimately resists adaptation, but modern streaming TV can probably give it its best chance to be realized in a (hopefully) satisfying form.
Just read his original Alien 3 script. His ideas for the properties of Xenomorph dna are remarkably similar to the "Black goo" of Scotts prequels. I find this fascinating.
Tomorrow Calling, a British adaptation of The Gernsback Continuum, starring Colin Salmon, was released a couple of months before JM. It's probably still on RUclips.
Maybe you simply don't know this, but the predictions John Brunner's book 'Shockwave Rider' written in 1975 (!) very much preceded the visions of 'The Internet' or Gibson's 'Matrix' for almost a decade. Being a reader of better and classical SF for more than 40 years now, to my opinion Brunner's achievement here stands second to nothing. And why you didn't even mention 'Altered Carbon' as the biggest obviously Gibson- inspired series to this day...!?
@o.b.7217 Isn't it strange that 'Shockwave Rider' isn't more well known? Even among the top SF youtubers it is rarely mentioned. Brunner was an extraordinary author and chose his subjects with a visionary power like few of his era. He should be much more famous and talked about.
I have read and seen all of Gibson's work including The Peripheral and it's sequel, Agency. Studio execs, as usual, are chickenshit to something as unique as Neuromancer.
Jesus Christ. Small wonder that films today are convoluted, fractured, incoherent messes - - They come from convoluted, fractured, incoherent production. Watching this made my teeth hurt.
"punk rock sensibility"... You'll have to flesh that out and back it up. We do not arguably inhabit the world it predicted. This had better get good quick. The core thematic concept of "Neuromancer" is the core thematic concept of The Novel. What does it mean to be human? Not at all. Leary was really into that stuff. Probs had a sub to Mondo 2000. Oh, you knew that. You were just pretending to be surprised. 6:39 - That's a variation on a Leary quote. [wikipedia] "In the 1980s, Leary became fascinated by computers, the internet, and virtual reality. He proclaimed that "the PC is the LSD of the 1990s" and enjoined historically technophobic bohemians to "turn on, boot up, jack in." The thing is... it's too late. "Neuromancer" is stale. EXCEPT... It's about an AI.
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I've loved William Gibson's work since I was a teen. I still remember the first time I read Neuromancer. I couldn't get it out of my mind, I'd never read anything so odd and exciting. I loved the futuristic yet broken world where it's set, and, I've returned to it and its (somewhat) sequels time and time again. Really, I've probably read Neuromancer 25 times at least, that's how much I adore it. It never gets old.
I remember the first time my then-young son tried to read it but just wasn't there yet, just a bit too young, and, he's not a big reader of fiction, he prefers nonfiction books entirely. I've talked about this book so much that he felt he had to at least try it. I was glad when he returned to it a few years later and finished it. I think he had the same look on his face that I did when trying to speak about it afterwards. Confusingly fascinating, but from his perspective, a little old, bc he's grown up with broadband internet 24/7 and a Smartphone in his pocket his whole life. When I first read Neuromancer, nothing like that existed at all so maybe it was easier for me to imagine that world, not really knowing what it was like.
I can't say enough good things about Neuromancer or William Gibson at all. I enjoyed The Peripheral and was happy to see it renewed for a second season. Really, after The Matrix came out in 1999 (and with Keanu Reeves having played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic) I didn't think there was a chance in heck that Neuromancer would ever be successfully adapted or ever find its audience in film, even amongst Cyberpunk fans. I'm happy to hear there's still a chance for it. As you said, it's far too important of a book to be forgotten and needs new readers forever and always.
(edited for spelling)
There.
Behind sailors in short-sleeved khaki. Dark hair, mirrored glasses, dark clothing, slender...
And gone.
Then Case was running, bent low, dodging between bodies.
The first appearance of Molly, and someone you never want to be tailing you... Lol.
Neuromancer hit me the same way, it was street, it was dirty, I've never encountered anything like it from my readings.
Molly... ❤
Great vid as usual Henry. I can’t tell you how much I hope they both do and don’t make a film of Pattern Recognition.
After I read Neuromancer, I read Gibson's "Burning Chrome', that explains many of the concepts and terms used in the later Neuromancer. For anyone who wants a bit of hand-holding, start with Burning Chrome. For more of a challenge, go straight to Neuromancer.
I never felt any film captured the atmosphere of "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Cops & robbers space western style movies boil down to the hero vs. 'the system' yet fail to capture the concept of Gibson's insidious Zaibatsu - corporations so powerful that they control the world like nation-states.
Thank you for including so many films with so many details about their development!
Very thoroughly researched and well-presented. Neuromancer may be the kind of work that ultimately resists adaptation, but modern streaming TV can probably give it its best chance to be realized in a (hopefully) satisfying form.
Just read his original Alien 3 script. His ideas for the properties of Xenomorph dna are remarkably similar to the "Black goo" of Scotts prequels. I find this fascinating.
I remember regarding Henry with Harrison Ford when I was a child. Wow. I haven’t thought of that movie in years.
Tomorrow Calling, a British adaptation of The Gernsback Continuum, starring Colin Salmon, was released a couple of months before JM.
It's probably still on RUclips.
Great Stuff... I missed you Henry.
Cube was a screen test the machines made for the construction of the matrix
I always wondered why the company was called "Cabana Boy Productions"
Another way to look at "Neuromancer" is... it's just a James Bond book.
Maybe you simply don't know this, but the predictions John Brunner's book 'Shockwave Rider' written in 1975 (!) very much preceded the visions of 'The Internet' or Gibson's 'Matrix' for almost a decade.
Being a reader of better and classical SF for more than 40 years now, to my opinion Brunner's achievement here stands second to nothing.
And why you didn't even mention 'Altered Carbon' as the biggest obviously Gibson- inspired series to this day...!?
@o.b.7217
Isn't it strange that 'Shockwave Rider' isn't more well known? Even among the top SF youtubers it is rarely mentioned. Brunner was an extraordinary author and chose his subjects with a visionary power like few of his era. He should be much more famous and talked about.
I have read and seen all of Gibson's work including The Peripheral and it's sequel, Agency. Studio execs, as usual, are chickenshit to something as unique as Neuromancer.
"Look, an author eight dweebs like. Let's jump on that!"
I loved Johnny Mnemonic
Sounds like an anime
Vincenzo Natali and Hayden Christensen would've been my choice
"The wife of the plastic surgeon", does she not have a name? 🙄
Jesus Christ. Small wonder that films today are convoluted, fractured, incoherent messes - - They come from convoluted, fractured, incoherent production. Watching this made my teeth hurt.
"punk rock sensibility"... You'll have to flesh that out and back it up.
We do not arguably inhabit the world it predicted.
This had better get good quick.
The core thematic concept of "Neuromancer" is the core thematic concept of The Novel. What does it mean to be human?
Not at all. Leary was really into that stuff. Probs had a sub to Mondo 2000.
Oh, you knew that. You were just pretending to be surprised.
6:39 - That's a variation on a Leary quote. [wikipedia] "In the 1980s, Leary became fascinated by computers, the internet, and virtual reality. He proclaimed that "the PC is the LSD of the 1990s" and enjoined historically technophobic bohemians to "turn on, boot up, jack in."
The thing is... it's too late. "Neuromancer" is stale.
EXCEPT... It's about an AI.
Only AI can translate it into its own movie