Category Archives: Group 2
Time After Time
As I reached the end of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, I was struck by the novel’s interesting use of time. Throughout the story, the measure of time was shown as a fluid concept, starting with the abstract Dali clock hanging at Julius Deane’s place. Defeating its purpose, “it never told the correct time” (12). Back in […]
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Character Sketchies
William Gibson’s Neuromancer continues its difficult ways in the second assigned section, Chapters 7-12. As I read on, it becomes blatantly clear that Gibson is purposely trying to keep the reader off-balance and overwhelmed. Similar to the first section, my biggest challenge has been the quickly shifting scenes. One of the clearest examples of this […]
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Crikey! This is an illusive one!
As I continue reading through Neuromancer, there are no new difficulties I am having, but the biggest issues from the first section are still present; however, now they seem amplified. For instance, the first section was difficult because the language … Continue reading →
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Rastafarians in Cyberspace
While the first section of Neuromancer was indisputably difficult to follow, the second section presented (to me at least) its own unique set of challenges for the reader. As we discussed in class, one thing that makes this novel difficult … Continue reading → Continue reading
Where biology and technology meet
What is typically difficult for me in beginning a novel is assimilating into the world the author has given us. Neruomancer throws the reader into a world where if technology was still a foreign concept, it would be nearly impossible to decipher. Where my difficulties first occurred was not in the jargon used, but pinpointing […]
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TV Skies and Mushroom Clouds
William Gibson’s Neuromancer deals with some common science fiction themes such as the blurring line between nature and technology. I enjoyed discovering how seemingly casual descriptions and metaphors served to highlight this theme. Take the opening line of the book for example: “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a […] Continue reading
Elevators, Escalators, and Asymmetries of Power
Having power is fraught with difficulties of its own. It’s not easy being the Dark Lord. Continue reading
“I wouldn’t sleep with you if you were the last man on…wait, where is everyone?”
This post was written partially in response to jaycrede’s post and more generally in defense of authors who take certain liberties when writing science fiction. I agree with jaycrede. That a comet’s deadly gases (do they even emit deadly gases?) could permeate through the atmosphere in such a concentrated way as to devastate a single […] Continue reading
Exploring possibilities
Our discussion in the class prior led me to thinking back about what defines and distinguishes science fiction from other genres in literature. There was one comment that struck a chord with me; science fiction allows the author to explore different possibilities within the boundaries of worldly rules. Fantasy elements are added to create the […]
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Race in “The Comet”
While W.E.B. Du Bois’ “The Comet” is a science fiction story depicting post-apocalyptic New York, it is much more than that; to me, it is a story primarily concerned with race relations that merely uses the science fiction genre as … Continue reading → Continue reading