Lily Hoang

In a syllabus, I called it NECROMANCER instead of NEUROMANCER. Oops.

24 Comments

1. December 6th, 2012 / 4:01 pm abysmal—

   I wish I was in a class that taught Neuromancer…

2. December 6th, 2012 / 5:13 pm Grant Maierhofer—

   taking a shower with war and peace and ruining it was the most romantic experience i had in 2011. there might be more romance in books because the physical ramifications of things like aids or sticking your arm into a woodchipper are only readable in books and don’t necessarily happen. maybe they do. nothing romantic will happen in 2012.

3. December 6th, 2012 / 9:24 pm reynard—

   ugh it’s just such a cheesy book tho

4. December 6th, 2012 / 10:15 pm Damon Goldsmith—

   hey lily you still rocking that 12″ powerbook?

5. December 6th, 2012 / 10:40 pm Brooks Sterritt—

   sweet

6. December 6th, 2012 / 11:22 pm lily hoang—

   I taught it in a workshop on Speculative Fiction. Pretty incredible.

7. December 6th, 2012 / 11:23 pm lily hoang—

   It died. I have a 13″ powerbook now.

8. December 6th, 2012 / 11:23 pm lily hoang—

   hehe

9. December 7th, 2012 / 12:38 am A D Jameson—

   OMIGOD I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS CALLED NECROMANCER, TOO!

10. December 7th, 2012 / 12:38 am A D Jameson—

    Boy, that sure changes my reading of Gibson’s novel.

11. December 7th, 2012 / 12:40 am A D Jameson—

    Lily, maybe you can write a Quirk Books parody of Neuromancer, called Neuromancer and Necromancers?

    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead cadaver….”

12. December 7th, 2012 / 12:42 am A D Jameson—

    I find that no matter how many times I read Neuromancer—and this is not intended to cast aspersion on that novel’s genius but perhaps to reveal instead some critical failing within myself, deep within my flesh—I can never really remember what happens in it.

    There’s something about a hacker…?

13. December 7th, 2012 / 12:43 am A D Jameson—

    Ergo death causes an increase of a single inch.

14. December 7th, 2012 / 12:44 am A D Jameson—

    Lily, as you know, I am a total romantic, and I think there’s an equal amount of romance in real life and in books, and that that amount is exactly equal. By which I mean: precisely, exactly equal.

15. December 7th, 2012 / 12:54 am A D Jameson—

    The word “cheese” occurs precisely once in Neuromancer:

    “And it was like real?” she asked, her mouth full of cheese croissant. “Like simstim?”

    (Thanks, Google Books!)

16. December 7th, 2012 / 1:01 am Brooks Sterritt—

    Wintermute is one of the greatest names, I think

17. December 7th, 2012 / 1:33 am A D Jameson—

    Oh, yeah, right, Wintermute!

    Though I sometimes confuse it with this.

18. December 7th, 2012 / 1:46 am Brooks Sterritt—

    Funny since I sometimes get that track confused with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y

19. December 7th, 2012 / 2:05 am A D Jameson—

    That’s understandable and reasonable.

20. December 7th, 2012 / 4:24 am deadgod—

    ‘The triumph of hope over experience’ happens rarely and usually incompetently irl, but often enough and pleasurably so in reading books.

    The neologism “neuromancer” reminds me of:

    It is impossible to say just what I mean!
    But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
    Would it have been worth while
    If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
    And turning toward the window, should say:
    …’That is not it at all,
    …That is not what I meant, at all.’

    The phrase “new romancer” doesn’t make me think of Lester Ballard, at all.

21. December 7th, 2012 / 8:36 am wuliao727—

    http://tinyurl.com/bs5ban5
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22. December 7th, 2012 / 9:43 am A D Jameson—

    The title Neuromancer makes me envision a person who seduces others by playing Neu! records.

23. December 7th, 2012 / 1:17 pm lily hoang—

    This is why you are my Internet boyfriend.

24. December 7th, 2012 / 9:19 pm mimi—

    men on curare or nu menacer