I’m going to be honest with you. I’m having a hard time with Neuromancer. I guess it’s difficult to explain. I’ve read sci-fi books, seen enough movies, and have certainly trekked my way through a fair share of confusing novels. But this one is different. I read through the summary on wikipedia (amazing how things became so much clearer when someone just straightened everything out for me) and now have a better grip on what’s actually going on in the story, but I don’t really know what to say about it. Yes, of course, it’s filled to the brim with cyberpunk aspects, but as of now we’ve gone over that so much it’s all become quite obvious and I’m not sure what else I could add. Our discussion on how Neuromancer is like a hard-boiled detective novel was interesting, and I saw more of that as I continued reading. One big example was when the Turing Police was questioning Case. They take on the “good cop” and “bad cop” personas, something Case even mentions in the novel.
Okay, well this blog is more self-text than I wanted, but like I said, I’m stuck with this one. I understand the Technoculture, cyberpunk, etc. relations, but I find myself unable to draw from other knowledge to make any new comments. Perhaps I know less about the whole sci-fi culture than I thought. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t a genre studied at my private Catholic grade school or high school. But really it’s always good to find something you don’t know a lot about. That’s how you learn. Neuromancer is definitely an experience for me.
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Good honesty. Try to think about the dominance of corporations in our own lives and make some connections.
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