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Interview with William Gibson

I was more of a proto-slacker than I was ever a hippie really

I can't use 'middle-aged' anymore with quite the same derisive sneer

#Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk
WG: It'll never happen. For one thing, it would be enormously expensive because we'd need a new score. I really intensely dislike the score they released. It was very expensive, done at the last minute, and we'd intended the whole thing to be set to really raw rock music. We had some really great stuff. And between the score and the politics of Sony Music and the release of the soundtrack album—which is a very big deal in the film business these days—-we lost all that. If you want to see something that is the closest thing available to what we were shooting for, the version released in Japan is 15 minutes longer, and has a completely different feeling. And it's not dubbed either. It's subtitled. It's got very cool Japanese subtitles going up the sides... ACCIDENTAL NEUROMANTIC M2: Were you an avid science fiction reader and space program fan as a kid? WG: Oh, yeah, I was an archetypal science fiction fan from about 12 to 15. And then puberty hit and I lost interest until I was about 30. M2: Something very similar happened to me. When I was a kid I had a G.I. Joe that came with a space capsule and a 45 rpm recording of Alan Shepard's first flight in space. I was totally into anything about space, and the science fiction programs that were on television. Then I lost interest until 5 or 6 years ago. Now, I'm actually writing a science fiction novel. WG: It probably doesn't have astronauts and space ships in it though. That's the difference. Actually we sort of need a science fiction toolkit to describe the world we live in. We live in what seems to me to be an overlapping set of science fiction scenarios. Scenarios that feel like science fiction. The AIDS scenario is a perfect example. Or the hole in the ozone layer. mean, all of that is the province of science fiction. But in science fiction, you have closure. They fix the hole in the ozone, or they cure AIDS. But you don't necessarily get that in real life. WHITE CYBERPUNKS ON MOPE M2: Do you feel more confident with each novel you write? WG: No, I don't really. It's terrible. I go through really boring, terrible depressions every time I write a book. I go through months of absolute aesthetic despair. My wife has learned to recognize the stages of it: I come out of the basement and I say, "Not only is this the worst book I've ever written, but it's the worst book anyone has ever written." [laughter] And then she says, "Oh, that means you're really close to the end, dear." M2: A lot of people find the tactile sensation of having a hard copy infinitely more satisfying than having to read information off of a computer screen. WG: Yeah, and if you're not too fastidious, you can read it in the bathtub. You can drop it out of a 2nd story window. I mean, it's got a lot going for it. But it's basically a block of decaying vegetable matter. I was at an architectural conference in Santa Monica, and Rem Koolhaas, this brilliant young European architect, got up and gave a presentation on a design of his for the new Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It was an absolutely mind-blowing structure: The exterior walls were video screens that crawled with patches of Rimbaud depending on the weather. It had different texts crawling over this building all the time, and I thought it was just great. We applauded him, and I turned to this very intelligent young woman who happened to be sitting beside me and I said, "That's a great library." And she looked at me with absolute contempt and said, "A library is something on the end of a modem." [laughter] l think I know what the future of the book is, if we go far enough into the future. I think each of us will own a book. It'll be a really beautiful book with pages that feel really good and whenever you open it, it will be whatever book you want it to be. In order to keep authors solvent, you would be debited a certain amount each time the potential for a new text was downloaded to your book.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
hatmos91.bsky.social
Neuromantic music
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
joebaldwin.me.uk
My dream is a party that hits with the same impact as Glass, the opening track on Yukihiro Takahashi's 1981 album Neuromantic
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
eianorange.bsky.social
Not really fond of the choice of wording nor even the spelling of "cyber," which we typically render as "psyber" as innernewt biz is typically neuromantic as an activity, entity, or resource. We have others, even some that use our adaptation of the ToL in Liber Nox that we use as a GoN ToL/ToD.
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
kalxplaylist.bsky.social
1:31 PM "Drip Dry Eyes" by 𝐘𝐮𝐤𝐢𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢
from 𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐 (Alfa) #nowplaying
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
cuquisade92.bsky.social
Què divertida ha sigut Neuromàntic, quina muntanya russa. Ay.
October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
lindon-martingale.bsky.social
Computers augmented with AI make the best thaumaturges. Unless something goes sideways in their programming, they have perfect concentration and perfect belief.

My calculations (based primarily on articulated servitronic principles) support the potential use of this neuromantic offloading.
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
cabezon2010.bsky.social
今日のPC作業用BGM1
#nowplaying
NEUROMANTIC（ロマン神経症）／高橋幸宏

youtu.be/RLlN5V4rl5o
Yukihiro Takahashi - Neuromantic (1981) FULL ALBUM Cassette
YouTube video by Ocean Drive Sound
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September 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
onlinebookclub.bsky.social
Book of the Day, September 9th – C/T/M

Temporarily Discounted on Kindle!
forums.onlinebookclub.org/shelves/book...

Neuromantic Subversion: Psychotronic Warfare by Lutz Barz

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With their predilection for warfare, Zohex united the tribes of Tellurium to face the enemy.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
coverart.bsky.social
Yukihiro Takahashi

💿 Neuromantic (1981)
🏷️ Electronic / New Wave / Synth-pop

Artwork:
Yukimasa Okumura (Illustration & Art Direction)
Hiromi Kanai, Tomohiro Itami (Design)
Sheila Rock (Photography)
August 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
jelbugle.bsky.social
Girls on Film is good! And I just found an album called ‘Neuromantic’ by Yukihiro Takahashi! The metal/rock choices are pretty bad though.
August 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
yurei-neko.bsky.social
Neuromantic Sefikura 2 - Starring Cloud 💖
#sefikura #Cloud #Cloudstrife #Cyberpunk #Neuromance #glitch
August 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
yurei-neko.bsky.social
Accidental Neuromantic Sefikura.

This was supposed to be a 'super quick' render to create a poster for another project I'm working on, but I just couldn't let go of it and did a 'stand-alone' version, too. 😅

#sefikura #Sephiroth #FF7Rebirth #Cyperpunk #Neuromance #glitch
July 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
luiscordoba.bsky.social
✨✨✨✨✨ neuromantic
July 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
jjvalencia.bsky.social
16 Thompsons después, no creía volver a encontrarme una genialidad a la altura de "1280 almas" o "Noche salvaje", pero ahí tenemos esta brillante descripción de la mente de un sociópata. @srvcr.bsky.social me recomendó el "Neuromantic" de Yukihiro Takahashi y llevo meses sin soltarlo, qué pasada.
July 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
jimgreig.bsky.social
#NowPlaying
Pretty good haul at the record fair yesterday with this being the pick of the bunch
Yukihiro Takahashi - Neuromantic
July 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
marlo.ooo
neuromantic by yukihiro takahashi moment
July 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
willow.meangirls.online
the album neuromantic by yukihiro takahashi 1981
July 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
pepemapache.com
Wow, Neuromantic is so good!
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
xymo.bsky.social
#nowspinning
高橋幸宏 - NEUROMANTIC
June 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
nearit.bsky.social
Tying a few thoughts from the week together: Gray days and Neuromantic nights; travels to Copenhagen and Happyland.
Dinner Plate Medallions
Scotland loves a story with two faces. Jekyll and Hyde. Glasgow and Unthank. Luci and Luda. Heaven and hell. There are more than two stories to tell about Glasgow, of course, but allow me a little …
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May 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
retroanimechris.bsky.social
My criticism covers a span of about 50 years or so, however, I began first with a conversation about the fading and fall of the Aniparo movement as documented by Yayoi Takeda. While under the penname Kazuo Mizuki (水木一子 ), Takeda published "Oldies" in her text Neuromantic: 2 that touched upon this:
May 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
morecalcium.bsky.social
Neuromantic.

#art #artist #artonbluesky #illustration #illustrator #digitalart
#neuromancer #neuromantic #cyberpunk #scifi #scifiart #sorebones #sorebonesart
A girl with pink hair and a green outfit wearing an augmented reality headset. It's mostly spam.
April 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
geniscardona.bsky.social
Estic rumiant què afegir al kit d’emergència, si 1984 de l’Orwell, Un món feliç del Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 del Bradbury, El senyor de les mosques del Golding, Neuromàntic del Gibson, La carretera del McCarthy o l’Apocalipsi. Podrien informar del tipus de distopia on vivim? 🦑
March 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
tuguicomiquer.bsky.social
Avui compleix 77 anys un dels grans de la ciència-ficció nord-americana: en William Gibson, considerat el pare del ciberpunk. Molts d'anys i bons, mestre!

En 2020, Pagès editors va tornar a publicar en català la seva novel·la 'Neuromàntic', amb traducció de Joan Fontcuberta.

#CiFiCat
March 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM