Milton sux0rz - real hard...
He's a bit like Joyce in that respects - so far up his own bum he can see what he had for breakfast...
I've been enjoying neuromancer - nearly finished it - I would say it's worth a read (though I prefer the more disjointed feel of the other books in that trilogy) - it's well written and good sci-fi, and worth it just on those merits I think
[nerd alert]Cyberpunk is less of a genre and more of a (sub)culture, or style. I'm not sure how to describe it exactly - it's usually based in the near future, usually far from utopian, often describing the widening rich/poor gap of the world. It's also a world where the 'cyber' (cyberspace/technology) is the most prominent from of expression/communication etc. Often quite a violent and bleak future.
I actually read the other two books in Gibson's trilogy first before I got round to finiding a copy of his more famous neuromancer... Bruce Sterling and John Shirley are other cyberpunk authors I've read. I also recomend the Sytem Shock (1 and 2) games -
very good - the original has a nice relisation of 'cyberspace'. Also check out a game '
uplink' (on a similar note - the PC game version of 'Blade Runner' is actually VERY good)
Gibson also wrote episodes of the X-Files (can't remember their names - but they were good...)
Blade runner, The Matrix, Total Recall, a clockwork orange, the landmower man, Mad Max, the terminator, alien etc. could all be said to come under Cyberpunk...
Ok, so make it less *just discovered* and more *has been really getting into it since about christmas when he started to play Uplink and System Shock*[/nerd alert]
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