So I'd advise folks to avoid the anthology printing of John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth." The original series - Eclipse, Eclipse Corona and Eclipse Penumbra - was GREAT.
The reprint is ... updated. (Read that like Hammerlock talking about Claptrap trying to ... interface with things.)
The original was written 25-30 years ago. It was great. Now ... there are references to Facebook. IN 2039. (And I'd put 2039 in caps if I could.) It's like the MySpace references on Good Clean Fun's "Between Christian Rock And A Hard Place." It dates it. Instantly. It makes it seem even older than it actually is, and more anachronistic.
It's like the newspaper columnist who thinks they have a handle on this "social media" stuff that all the kids are into and tries to Facebook someone on the Tweetybox with their Instamatic account.
And yeah, it's almost that bad. See "online RPG" instead of MUD or MMO or something that's actually used to describe online gaming.
Gah. It's so depressing. And the original books were so good.
The reprint is ... updated. (Read that like Hammerlock talking about Claptrap trying to ... interface with things.)
The original was written 25-30 years ago. It was great. Now ... there are references to Facebook. IN 2039. (And I'd put 2039 in caps if I could.) It's like the MySpace references on Good Clean Fun's "Between Christian Rock And A Hard Place." It dates it. Instantly. It makes it seem even older than it actually is, and more anachronistic.
It's like the newspaper columnist who thinks they have a handle on this "social media" stuff that all the kids are into and tries to Facebook someone on the Tweetybox with their Instamatic account.
And yeah, it's almost that bad. See "online RPG" instead of MUD or MMO or something that's actually used to describe online gaming.
Gah. It's so depressing. And the original books were so good.