Post by Pierre AnoidI am still out here cashing sporadic 9$ royalty cheques from the 2nd edition of the book. Did I tel you I had both the first edition and the second signed by William Gibson. That was in 2007.
"$9 US eh? Wow. Well, that should cover everybody who bought one that was a member here. Buy yourself a pound of coffee, get wired, and write something magnificent, if you want," suggests Heretic idly. "I am about to listen to Neuromancer again, since it has been a few years. I bought it on cassette tape, read by William Gibson, a couple decades ago... so old. It's weird to listen to that story with a southern drawl. I could never accept that was supposed to take place in 2020. You don't build city-sized geodesic domes and then let them decay and become ownerless trash in only 40 years. I think that's why I latched onto the date in Mona Lisa Overdrive of 2176, which is much more reasonable for the full decay of the Sprawl."
"The other thing which is so weird today is soccer mom's have wireless tablets and bluetooth headsets faster than the PC's we imagined in the 1990's, and they use them for picture sharing to brag about the party everybody else missed on Facebook. Twitter is more important, putting your feelings into a 3 sentence text message. Music has largely died because its mostly free and thus lousy quality. Autotune chorus makes me want to vomit. Wikipedia makes people stupider by giving them instant access to facts they don't know exist because they don't memorize things anymore so can't make the connections. Education has turned into a con game, all about student loan debt, and most jobs today are part time, minimum wage, on call, or if they aren't, they're about to be globalized to a call center in India or manufactured by slave labor in China. Free healthcare costs three times as much as it used to before it was "free" and the Democratic Party is DOA for the next 10 elections thanks to their sheer incompetence for the last 7 years. Oh, and the the Drought in the western states might be over. So much for the Global Warming Cult. We're back to normal 1980's weather patterns. In the scale of things, $9 in royalties? That's rather good news."