dig this philosophy...or whatever...

[NightGod]

Of course I've read Gibson; he is, or at least was, the man. Loved or liked all his stuff up till PATTERN RECOGNITION (which just didn't grab me, but I kinda shy away from current time literature). Seems he's taken a bit of a hiatus from writing, but finally has his own site and is even active on his forum.

Gibson has a new book coming out very soon (just checked Amazon, it's due August 7th). Though if you don't like Pattern Recognition (which is when I personally think he reached a new level of ability and went from a great author and an utterly amazing one), you likely won't like Spook Country, as it's set in the same universe.

From what you've said so far, it seems that you might like Rudy Rucker-very hard sci-fi, futuristic, robots vs mankind. Not a particular fave of mine, but something you'd likely enjoy.

[shorthair]

NightGod: oh. Well, I might give PR another try, eventually. Yeah, I frequent Bruce Sterling's WIRED blog and he often has things on Rucker. Rucker seems to be in perhaps a vague camp the likes of whihc Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross inhabit. Maybe not, but that's the feeling I get. So many of them I haven't really delved into. Thanks.

boyk: okay. I'll look for that next.

[RayB]

zeal, the very zeal chosen to indicate with an elegant movement of the finger a thing impossible to tell, zeal of a chosen position as a challenge to gravity, in equilibrium on infinite movements of the torso and the shoulders, controlling the thin oscillations of a whole which would be a center, an equation, an in-between, a fraction of space, time, emotion, acceptance of a state close to vegetal state but with an animal action

Massive run-on sentence.

[jbox]

Much of his BEST work was in shorts...

Crikey! Me too mate!

PS. Seriously though, that oil-painting movie was awesome (despite the fact that Neo was in it).