Category Archives: Group 4

   Having read a few novels that fall into the cyberpunk genre, I was not completely taken aback by Gibson’s total immersion technique in Neuromancer.  However, this is not to say, by any means, that I was not confused by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

   Having read a few novels that fall into the cyberpunk genre, I was not completely taken aback by Gibson’s total immersion technique in Neuromancer.  However, this is not to say, by any means, that I was not confused by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“I am an invisible man.  No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.  I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nadine and I, along with Jessica and Ashley, had briefly discussed Gibson’s Neuromancer at the beginning of another class.  I had enjoyed Neuromancer, and in particular Gibson’s conventions.  However, as our class discussion on Tuesday, as well as the out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nueromancer is by far one of the most complicated books I have ever read. This novel not only submerses the reader into a world they do not know, but also expects the reader constantly fight to understand the world. In class we talked about how the first six chapters bombarded the reader with image after […] Continue reading →

The disoriented, helter skelter style of Neuromancer bring “cognitive estrangement” to a whole new level. Case is the ultimate case of cognitive estrangement. In the beginning of the story he steals from his employer, and as punishment his nervous system is poisoned with the Russian wartime chemical Mycotoxin. After falling from the “bodiless exultation of […] Continue reading →

Incomprehensible sums up the first six chapters of this novel. The jerking of scenes, unique language, unfamiliar surroundings, unsure time setting, and inability to relate to any of the characters in any form cause this novel to be difficult. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t find myself having much difficulty with Neuromancer.  Cyberpunk is a familiar landscape after so many years of playing the (now ancient) game Deus Ex.  That game traverses a lot of the same ground that Neuromancer covers: a world rotting underneath megacorporations with a population augmented by implants.  So, I suppose I didn’t have Continue reading →

There is one major sticking point that bothered me about Campbell’s “Who Goes There” (and the terrifying childhood memories of watching The Thing).  Everyone immediately decries the Thing as an immoral monster.  And, although, there is an attempt to weakly refute the inherent evil of the creature,  it isn’t a strong one. Is it evil? I wonder about Continue reading →

At first the comet may seem progressive. For a story written in the 1920′s, it allows the reader the rare fantasy to imagine a world without race, class and gender. As Jim stared up into the heavens on top of the tower, “the shackles seemed to rattle and fall from his soul (270).” When he […] Continue reading →