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Comment on Neuromancer: Time Vertigo by Week 5–is this confusion on purpose?? | Science Fiction
[…] Christina thinks that part of his objective is to intentionally play around with our sense of time in the novel, which, she says, “does not seem to progress singularly,” and causes “time vertigo” for her. […]
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Neuromancer and Amazon: The Matrix!
I was looking at Amazon’s new web browser Silk. It feels a lot like the beginnings of the matrix – there is going to be so much stuff in the “cloud” (aka matrix). Sure Opera and Skyfire did that, BUT Amazon will be a HUGE and CENTRALIZED place for all this stuff!! Exciting and scary! […]
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Neuromancer
One of the most off putting things about Neuromancer is the lack of history. While there is a lot of created history and created tech, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of reference to any “current” history. Everything seems to be set in the “now” that Gibson has created. In Chiba City, the old […] Continue reading
Neuromancer: Time Vertigo
I’m OK with the new words and old words used in new ways, I’m OK with the technology-machinistic nature of people, places and things. BUT, the context of time seems to be notably missing from Neuromancer. I’m not sure why, even now, I still feel the need to have this context. It’s pretty clear things […]
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Wait…What Just Happened?
“Neuromancer” is definitely bad ass but I do not think I have done so much re-reading in a long time. For every page I read, I have to flip back three just to make sure I’m on board with what’s happening in this book. So I guess naturally I have some questions to just throw […] Continue reading
Struggling with Neuromancer
Reading Neuromancer is difficult, but to summarize my frustration, I’ll quote Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski: “…you have no frame of reference here, [Donny.] You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie…” This novel requires slow reading and re-reading because I’m trying to construct an exposition in my […] Continue reading
In medias res in Neuromancer
William Gibson’s 1984 Neuromancer is pretty dense. It begins right in the middle of things, and never explains the science fiction world’s background. We the readers must piece it together on our own. Initially, main character Case seems like… Continue reading
Cityscape and Climbing
I would like to honestly state that when I first read Neuromancer, I didn’t fully know what to expect. However from the vivid descriptions in the first chapter or so, the word came to me; Cityscape. It is a term that is not often used, but is well received (well I believe it is). Within […]
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Another Response to Blame Shifting
In response to the two posts about blame shifting, I found it interesting that it’s so natural to assign blame, whether it is us or in Who Goes There or in the movie or, even, in The Thing short story. Pitying something, as The Thing did in the last short story suggest some sort of […]
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