William Gibson is good.
But Sci Fi and Fantasy are epically bent. Just because a book is massively long, it doesn't mean you have to be extra clever to read it. There's a very deep strain of hilariously misplaced intellectual grandstanding which is pretty much unique to Sci Fi and fantasy fans.

There's a very good reason that the vast bulk of that stuff is ignored by literature academics. It's because it's shit.

Hope this helps.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:26, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I like Gibson's work because it's not overly-explained
It's also kinda believable, instead of the huge sweep of, say, the Dune books, it takes place in a world you and I could inhabit.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)

believabity has fuck all to do with it. Neuromancer's power is in its treatment of the posthuman in the modern gothic.
As any fule kno.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)

is spouting pretentious bollocks part of you 'persona' or do you mean this shit?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)

that is not pretension, it is what that novel does.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:44, Reply)

^ gayest post ever on the internet ever.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:50, Reply)

EVER.
It's an achingly beautiful post.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:50, Reply)

William Gibson is a fucking bent 'cyber' spastic.
Therefore, by association, so are you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)