I want to re-read Neuromancer. Some of his shorter stories are great. I really want to try my hand at writing some cyberpunk but its a struggle because I'm bad at fiction.

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I think the main way to get better is just to practice, and get people to review your work. And also, I think keeping up to date with various technologies, and their implications could be helpful, you could imagine new technologies and concepts, that others may not have thought about

Anything by Philip K. Dick. Gibson is extremely mediocre.

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The appeal of Gibson is more stylistic than anything else. Dick has more challenging and thought provoking things to say.

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Yeah, but Dick is also just a genuinely awful prose stylist. Gibson is at least passable in that regard.

Like sure, Gibson's appeal is mostly stylistic but it's a more aesthetically pleasing experience than wading through PKD's sludgy understanding of the English language

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The best filter for the aesthetically obsessed. Even with strange prose, PKD still managed to create several more meaningful novels compared to Gibson.

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Don't get me wrong, I like PKD a lot better, Faith of Our Fathers is one of my favorite short stories of all time. It's just that he can get grating.

I know Gibson's works tend to age poorly to a lot of people already, but I wondered recently if the rise of AI will see his work age (more) poorly, as Gibson is very sympathetic towards AI in his works and modern AI has so far proven to be nothing but a scourge. Take Neuromancer, about (among many other things) an AI who wants to be free - who truly only wants to be free, no ulterior motive, no evil. Idoru is about an AI who suffers just as people do under corporations and seeks to be free of tyranny, a very human and relatable emotion. I appreciate seeing these takes on AI just on the novelty of it, but now that AI has come about and has been so evil, I find the themes a bit more difficult to stomach.