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+1 on my contra list for the book, which I have not read yet because the lingo annoybored me after two or three pages.

> it introduced so many concepts that others went on to refine

So you've read works that build on Necromancer earlier. Care to share some of those books/authors and concepts?

"hardwired" (walter jon williams) felt pretty gibson-inspired, though given that it came out just two years after neuromancer perhaps they were just tapping into the same cyberpunk zeitgeist. (I guess it depends on to what extent you feel gibson singlehandedly invented cyberpunk as a genre; he certainly shaped the field the way tolkien did for fantasy, but there were others contributing to it too.)

Bruce Sterling?

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