JAPANESE WEIRDNESS ( the Science-Fiction Connection)

[Zlatko Waterman]

A few days ago, in the presence of some good friends, and in the midst of watching "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", I made the assertion, based on never having visited Japan but having consumed many of their cultural artifacts as a distant spectator ( and having read many translated Japanese novels, etc.), that Japan was probably the ultimate "science-fiction" country and culture on planet earth.

Here is a website, collated by a self-confessed "American Jerk", (found on the William Gibson homepage) which, I think, partially substantiates my claim.

Have fun, and by the way, parts of this page should ( probably) not be viewed by persons under the age of 13:


http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/ADIARY.htm



Zlatko

[Zlatko Waterman]

And here's a fine article by William Gibson, "My Private Tokyo", underlining the notion I appropriated from his site in the first place:


http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/gibson.html



--Z