There was a fantastic soundtrack created for this audiobook in the 90s by the industrial group Black Rain. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer
Woah, thank you so much for posting this. What an atmosphere.
William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
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Re: William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
#62I've had this sequence of quotations from various classic cyberpunk stories burned into my mind for the last 30 years. The slow zoom into the disembodied head on the cover of Neuromancer, while the visual and audio effects increase in intensity over the narration, "lines of light, ranged in the non-space of the mind" is particularly striking: https://youtu.be/VuZonQVN4uw?t=556
Was that read by Gibson himself?
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also listened to it as an audiobook and while I very much got the vibe, I have no idea what was going on, which is kinda rare (I listen to a lot of audiobooks). It's as if I didn't even read it... buy kinda did. I duno.
i've read neuromancer at least five times and i still feel like i never actually read it. it's a weirdly-written book with little environmental exposition - but i still love it.
Every time I read it I catch something I missed previously. Feels true of all the sprawl and bridge books.
There's something magical about a strongly consistent fictional world where all the characters understand the world and what's happening but the reader is baffled. It elevates the experience of visiting a strange new place to a new level of immersion.
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#65Recommend the Peripheral TV series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral_(TV_series) Hopefully they renew it eventually
Apparently the show for Neuromancer itself is now in production.
Yes, indeed! Apple already posted a teaser, ft. the Chatsubo:
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#66I've been reading Neuromancer, had it on my list for long time... But I just can't get through it. It moves slowly, the main character makes dumb choices (facepalm level), has a flat personality, sex is very male-centric and flat/unimaginative (but that is in most older scifi "here an interesting female with a loose sexual morale to spice up the story"). I stopped somewhere half way. Someone spoiled the plot so I kno…
I mean, the main character is a washed out, aging, drug junkie has-been, of course he makes bad choices. :)
Re: William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
#67There was a fantastic soundtrack created for this audiobook in the 90s by the industrial group Black Rain. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer
Wow, that is absolutely phenomenal! This alone makes me want to listen to the audio book, which would be my first. Perhaps a dumb question, but are ambient tracks and/or similar fx stuff common in audio books? I'd always assumed it was simply a reading.
Many audiobooks have brief music interludes between major sections, but generally that's it, just narration.
Soundbooth Theater does exactly that with music and sound effects
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a wetransfer link but that expired. Has anyone got a torrent for the CD Version? Or perhaps a reddit acount to contact that OP to get another download for it? If you can make it available i can seed it indefinetly
I have the CD version, but I stupidly re-encoded it to something like 256kbps CBR MP3 back in 2012. Still, the fidelity is far greater than what was shared here. I can uploaded it somewhere if you'd like. Edit: Here you go: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MvEQd-V3Ma86XMnQYpCa... Please share this far & wide. I have a busy night ahead of me or I'd take the time to upload it to IA.
That's why like-minded HN users are here ;-)
I uploaded your MP3s to Internet Archive for all to enjoy: https://archive.org/details/william-gibson-neuromancer-abrid...
Re: William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
#69I 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 had to read Neuromancer twice; once to learn the world, then once to actually enjoy the story.
Same here. First read through I picked up a little bit but finished mostly confused. I basically powered through the last half of the book.
Then I read the plot summary on Wikipedia and realized how much I missed or misunderstood.
After that I read the book again and enjoyed it.
Re: William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
#70There was a fantastic soundtrack created for this audiobook in the 90s by the industrial group Black Rain. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer
Wow, that is absolutely phenomenal! This alone makes me want to listen to the audio book, which would be my first. Perhaps a dumb question, but are ambient tracks and/or similar fx stuff common in audio books? I'd always assumed it was simply a reading.
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