http://aattilii.onmason.com/2011/09/27/getting-lost-in-neuromancer/#comment-7
This was supposed to be posted in ashley’s comments, but that pesky spam filter outsmarted me.
Totally agree with you, Ashley. I have a hard time completely immersing myself into the Neuromancer universe as well, mostly due to questions and conundrums regarding the technology in the novel. For example, Molly’s glasses/goggles. When/if ever Molly cries, do they fill up with her tears like goggles in a swimming pool, obscuring her vision and thus defeating their entire purpose? I find myself continually going off on mental tangents, trying to resolve the thousands of questions that the book poses. Not that the novel isn’t highly entertaining, I think it just takes a little longer to process the information, something that was sort of unexpected when I began reading it this past week. I began this course with the presumption that science fictions novels were hardly academic, and have already realized that I was very, very, wrong.
