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Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
A thrilling sensation
Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George • Interface
“Men,” she said. “Ella, my mother, she says the odds are good around here, but the goods are odd. ’Cept they aren’t odd, usually. More like too ordinary.”
William Gibson • The Peripheral
Make no mistake: we are dependent on image-technology; and the better the tech, the harder we’re hooked.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Hackworth had enjoyed San Francisco and was hardly immune to its charm, but Atlantis/Shanghai had imbued him with the sense that all the old cities of the world were doomed, except possibly as theme parks, and that the future was in the new cities, built from the bedrock up one atom at a time, their Feed lines as integral as capillaries were to fle
... See moreNeal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.
William Gibson • Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy Book 1)
"Our various technological prostheses become extensions of our absentmindedness as they become more refined." - Duncan Reyburn
William Gibson’s novels,