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There was a fantastic soundtrack created for this audiobook in the 90s by the industrial group Black Rain. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer
A real classic. As an author who was asked by my publisher to perform my own audiobook: 1. There is a reason 'reader of audiobooks' is a profession - it is stupid difficult. I will never do it again. 2. I loved this tape so much. It does such interesting things with its soundscape (from memory - if it actually is just Gibson reading it, then he must have embedded those memories through the sheer brilliance of his per…
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Yeah, I took a quick listen to OP -- unfortunately their mp3s are of very poor quality. I heard numerous glitches while listening :(
I think the audio quality gives this recording character. What could be more cyberpunk than hearing the quirky artifacts resulting from ripping an obsolete recording medium?
Examples in the following file http://bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/Tape1a.mp3 :
0:40, 1:04, 1:13, 1:21, 2:18 ... I mean.. the files are basically ruined :\
I stopped somewhere half way. Someone spoiled the plot so I know it should get epic at some point but I just can't get there. Am I the only one?
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256kbit CBR MP3 is pretty good for spoken word material
Agreed. With that being said, I meant that it was a stupid move from an archival POV.
A real classic. As an author who was asked by my publisher to perform my own audiobook: 1. There is a reason 'reader of audiobooks' is a profession - it is stupid difficult. I will never do it again. 2. I loved this tape so much. It does such interesting things with its soundscape (from memory - if it actually is just Gibson reading it, then he must have embedded those memories through the sheer brilliance of his per…
the best author-read audiobook I've listened to recently has been Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky[0]. He did a really good job and I would never have guessed it was the author himself. As you say, it's a very different and difficult job. [0] https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CMXTZZN2
The best author narrated books, by far, are narrated by Douglas Adams. He's recorded all his books, and they're all great. There's something special hearing the words coming straight from the genius himself.
I listened to Neuromancer on a long drive one time, and I will say that it's a wonderful book but not one that's particularly suited to the audiobook medium. It's hard to follow at times because it avoids a lot of big picture narrative and instead focuses on very small scale scenes of events happening within a broader story. It means that it can be confusing at times, as you are often as in the dark as the characters…
I think this book needs at least two passes because there's a lot of in-universe jargon to pick up and for me it really only began to fall into place towards the end half. I also asked ChatGPT to summarise each chapter for me after I'd read it - that really helped me fill in the gaps of what I'd missed or misunderstood. In addition, I had it generate me a spoiler-free glossary of all the main terminology used in the book.
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There is a BBC Audio drama of Neuromancer that is 1:56 long. It is excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S89BHnaxULo I haven't listened to the audio book of Neuromancer but I re-read it a few weeks back. The audio play I still go back to once in a while as well.
Two minutes hardly seems enough time to do the story justice.