23 years after airing, I gave BBC's "Neuromancer" a try. (I didnt want to ruin my memory of the books).
If you (re)listen today, it's amazing what holds up : use of AI, the oligarchs, political intrigue of megacorps. And (of course) first use of the word "cyberspace" (🧵1 of 5)
William Gibson wrote amazing prose, but this BBC version misses some of his more poetic details, like this favorite scene of mine. In the book, Case isnt just laughing, his cheeks are streaked with tears of release. One of my favorite scenes as a teen/young adult
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The tech bits not only hold up, but the way society USES the tech does also. Amazing tech is ultimately just leveraged for surveillance, military, and hedonistic "bread and circus" for the masses. Pretty amazing to be that prescient in the first years of the 1980s.
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All told, I was pleasantly surprised by this BBC version.
You get the whole story in under 2 hours. It's missing the Gibson-style that hypnotized me 27 years ago, but it still felt (for me) like hangin out with a old close friend from gradeschool. Worth a (re)listen.
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A link to the free full BBC show is currently here on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/neurom…
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