Noun Used As A Verb, Film At Eleven

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Re yuki-onna, talking about how the ending of Watchmen doesn't work for her because she's been "Neuromancered"...WTF does that even mean, exactly? I read Neuromancer, but about a million years ago, and it occurs to me that perhaps it was exactly as not-so-impressive to me, in the end, as Watchmen was to her. But seriously: There's something "innate" in a received-wisdom sense that I'm supposed to be getting from the reference about how best to end a book, right? And...I'm just not gettin' it, sorry.

I should probably be asking her, I suppose, rather than the universe at large. But I get the feeling I'd just get slapped for being dumb, and I'm not all too into that right now.

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There is not a lot of technogeekery in them.

Which is why I can read both LeGuin and Kiernan with no problem. (Though I must say I've barely scratched the LeGuinian surface, twenty years after first picking up The Dispossessed.) My review of The Dry Salvages can't be TOO far down the pile on Amazon.

Still, though, in each case, I much prefer their fantasy. My favorite LeGuin book will likely always be Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, my favorite Kiernan Candles for Elizabeth...

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My favorite LeGuin book will likely always be Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, my favorite Kiernan Candles for Elizabeth...

Okay, the obvious question: why those?