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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 16:55:06 JST lainy
   I read through William Gibson’s short story collection “Burning Chrome” yesterday. I read neuromancer before but had already forgotten most of the plot. I really like his short stories a lot more, it seems that his ideas work much better in short form. Also, comparing it to most new authors, it’s impressive how well Gibson can write. Most of his sentences read beautifully. Recommended reading, check it out.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 16:58:24 JST kaia

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     @lain I like that he has a lot of competent strong female characters
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 16:59:36 JST lainy

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     Also it was just surprising how fully formed (or rather, stagnant) the cyberpunk style already was in stories like “Johnny mnemonic”. You could plop it in as aside mission in cyberpunk 2077 and you wouldn’t notice anything being off.
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     :segasaturn: (takao@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 17:08:52 JST :segasaturn:

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     @lain hope you get to reading Idoru eventually, it's super fun and very topical these days wwww
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     🌈Magical Thinking (magicalthinking@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 17:50:50 JST 🌈Magical Thinking

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     @lain

     Adam Sims did a great reading for BBC radio4, which now seems to be offline...

     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jqrf

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     p (p@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 20:50:33 JST p

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     I read count zero and Mona Lisa overdrive along with neuromancer, while I recall enjoying it I don't remember much else
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