ext_12938 ([identity profile] armb.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] muninnhuginn 2007-03-08 06:06 pm (UTC)

> it was the literary trappings--the footnotes
...
> The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.

I wonder how long it will be before Neuromancer needs a footnote to explain that when it was written, TV transmissions were analogue and tuning to an unused one gave noisy grey, not a solid blue or green.

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