This is not a game

He did it.

Again.

He didn't invent cyberpunk when he wrote "Hardwired". Sterling and Gibson, among many others, were already there. 

He didn't invent "post-human-punk" when he wrote "Aristoï". Banks was already there.

He didn't invent science-fantasy or "arcane-punk" when he wrote "Metropolitan". Bradley and many others had already done that before.

He didn't invent space opera nor military SF when he wrote "The Praxis", Weber, Smith and many, many, many others had gone that way long before him.

But, each and every time, he makes a masterpiece. This guy is a kind of Bowie when it comes to SF: he takes what is currently floating around, put his own spin and create a very enjoyable and original piece.

This time, he wrote "This is not a game". Now, WJW is surfing on wave going back to Brunner's "Shockwave Rider", maybe even further. Recently, Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" renewed the theme, and even more recently there were the excellent "Little Brother" by Doctorow and "Halting State" by Stross. All of it is already in Brunner and Toffler, of course, but still, he dit it. Again. And it is very good indeed.

 

Thank you Mister Williams ;-)