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Silver-finned cars and white togas

Matt’s not doing the script frenzy with me. He’s got his physics degree last exams to battle through.
Guess it’s a one-man effort this time round then, I’ll grab him for NaNoWriMo.

I dug out my yellowing copy of Mirrorshades this morning, almost burning the facon in the pan when I got a bit too absorbed in one of the stories. It’s an amazing little compilation that I suggest any modern sci-fi fans get a hold of if you still can. It’s got stories from Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear and William Gibson in it. The latter is the first story he ever had published and it is absolutely amazing, called the Gernsback Continuum. The compilation was only printed when Gibson had released Neuromancer and Count Zero so although he was already firmly entrenched in the sci-fi genre pantheon as a new god he was still quite wet behind the ears and hadn’t gone on to finish the Sprawl series or even start the Bridge trilogy. The Gernsback Continuum is such a beautifully crafted little story about the 30s – 50s future America that didn’t happen, covering only twelve pages but doing so with such aplomb that I’m left jealously wishing that I could have even half the grace traversing the English language as he does. If you can’t find a copy of it, have a google for it, it’s really worth reading.