Coredump

Got these yesterday from a second-hand book shop here in Cabanatuan City: (from top) Neil Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon; Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead; William Gibson’s Virtual Light; and Programming Perl, second edition, from O’Reilly. All for Php99 each.

Not bad at all.

Remember Johnny Mnemonic, and how Reeves mangled it? Brace yourself, because he’s doing Philip K. Dick’s cyberpunk book, A Scanner Darkly (screenplay and direction by Richard Linklater (Dazed and confused, Before Sunrise)).

Here’s a preview trailer:

Reminds me of a recent thread on PLUG-Misc. I haven’t read the book, but I do hope they do cyberpunk right this time. Film renditions of PKD’s work have been okay so far: Blade Runner, Minority Report and Paycheck were cool flicks. Wished they’d do more SF movies. The sneak peek looks promising, though — it has that gritty, drug-induced feel to it.