I skimmed it too. Cat's bright but reading her noticing everything everyone else noticed two decades ago without being aware of the past, etc...
But I just looked back at her post and read it more carefully and that was her point, even if she hadn't fully meant to prove it that way.
In context, for her reading Neuromancer or The Watchman decades after their original impact, she saw a lot of techniques and themes that are so commonplace that they're not that interesting...but she's aware that these works are why those techniques and themes became so popular. (In other words, if you've read a dozen clones and then see the original, it can look like it's cribbing from everything else since you've grown accustomed to the things that originally made it great.)
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Date: 2009-02-17 12:20 am (UTC)But I just looked back at her post and read it more carefully and that was her point, even if she hadn't fully meant to prove it that way.
In context, for her reading Neuromancer or The Watchman decades after their original impact, she saw a lot of techniques and themes that are so commonplace that they're not that interesting...but she's aware that these works are why those techniques and themes became so popular. (In other words, if you've read a dozen clones and then see the original, it can look like it's cribbing from everything else since you've grown accustomed to the things that originally made it great.)