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‘Masters Of The Air’s Callum Turner Joins Apple TV’s New Sci-Fi Series ‘Neuromancer’

Great news to hear Neuromancer is in production. Hope they do it justice.

Yeah, I don’t know. I have my doubts on this one because so much rides on tech assumptions made by Gibson - look at the opening line? How many remember what ” the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” would look like? No cell phones - there’s no way to have that famous scene of the AI calling all the payphones in a line at the airport because there are no payphones at any airports anymore… It’s all part of the look and feel, the “user interface” of the novel if you will.

Now, I loved that book and it made an insanely outsized impression on me. But it has never translated off he page well yet (the video game was an especially sick joke) and I doubt it ever will. I wish them well, but I really won’t hold my breath.