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One book and one movie:
Having read Spook Country, I realized that somehow I had missed reading Gibson's previous book, Pattern Recognition. As it tells a story from only a single character's viewpoint, it is a much tighter read and very interesting. Much more of Blue Ant and a main character who has a 'psychic allergy' (as it were) to branded goods . . . Superb concepts and a fun read. My Grade: B+/A-
Watched The Time Machine, the 2002 remark, not as bad as I was expecting but still not good. (Watched to fulfill my monthly quota of bad SF.) The design of the time machine itself was rather well done with Babbage Engine styled time display. It was annoyingly self-referential at time, the library of 2030 visited by the time traveler offers H.G. Wells' Time Machine as an example of time travel. The time travel effects were well done but otherwise nothing new on that side of things. My Grade: C-
Having read Spook Country, I realized that somehow I had missed reading Gibson's previous book, Pattern Recognition. As it tells a story from only a single character's viewpoint, it is a much tighter read and very interesting. Much more of Blue Ant and a main character who has a 'psychic allergy' (as it were) to branded goods . . . Superb concepts and a fun read. My Grade: B+/A-
Watched The Time Machine, the 2002 remark, not as bad as I was expecting but still not good. (Watched to fulfill my monthly quota of bad SF.) The design of the time machine itself was rather well done with Babbage Engine styled time display. It was annoyingly self-referential at time, the library of 2030 visited by the time traveler offers H.G. Wells' Time Machine as an example of time travel. The time travel effects were well done but otherwise nothing new on that side of things. My Grade: C-