quote, writing, Parallax-adjacent
"About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the 'look' of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head!" -- William Gibson
God, this all makes me feel so much better about Lore from Dark Crystal and its *unnerving* resemblance to the Temple Guardian (aka the Slamhound, aka Space Doggo) from Parallax...
There's just enough eerie similarity between Dark Crystal and the Mixolyne half of Parallax to make me nervous and kind of giddy. Hey, maybe it means florid, overgrown epic fantasy is *in* this year...
And if people accuse us of ripping them off, well, we kept all the receipts. We didn't necessarily get there first, but we got there on our own. :)
quote, writing, Parallax-adjacent
@zebratron2084 a YouTube thing I watched recently, they got Gibson and Ridley Scott in the same room and asked, and independently they were into the same primarily Moebius comics. Dark Crystal looms huge over our generation, too.
re: quote, writing, Parallax-adjacent
@zebratron2084 @anthracite no, afaik this was almost all about the really big architecture on some of the sci fantasy stuff.
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@Leucrotta Did Moebius ever write any outright cyberpunk stuff? I thought he mostly just did fantasy, but I haven't actually sat and read much of his stuff that wasn't, like, Heavy Metal style "warrior ladies on pterodactyls and crinkly old monks" stuff. If he did do anything outright cyberpunky—and not just sci-fantasy tinged—I wanna read the fuck outta that...
cc'ing @anthracite on this for obvious reasons