I've really gotten this feeling from the newer books (Periphery and Agency) but also the Blue Ant books that I re-read recently. Their role is to watch as things happen around them Posted by zardoz at 1:50 PM on September 8 It could totally work, as long as they don't turn it into a CGI mess. Anyway, it totally holds up for me and I know there have been a few attempts at a movie, but it's never happened. The cyberspace portion is surprisingly minimal, which is a good thing. (By contrast look at The Matrix and the attempts to show how people interface with the Matrix-doesn't look cutting edge anymore, quite the opposite). It's complex and action packed and a lot of fun, and Gibson wisely kept away from too much detail on how Case navigates cyberspace. Speaking of which, last year or so I re-read Neuromancer, thinking it would be terribly dated, but I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't. But I'll put it back on the read pile and give it another try. That hard boiled noir thing, which is good when it's your protagonist, or bad guy, or even the prose narration, which Gibson excels at. His characters too often sound too alike. In one particular part, two characters were talking and I couldn't tell who was who. I read about half of The Peripheral but put it down, perhaps unfairly, because the dialogue was bothering me.
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