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I’m quite glad, actually, that there was a prompt issued for this week’s blogging as I know of nothing I would rather blog about.  Cracking William Gibson proved something of a frustrating, almost embarrassingly revealing reading experience.  I discovered this: … Continue reading → 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 →

 At first, for a difficulty, I was kind of confused through the novel whether which part is based on reality and which is based on cyberspace. And since the ‘cyberspace’, which William Gibson first used through this novel, is an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t know why, but I feel really like Neuromancer is very at home in Japan.  It could be that since modern day Japan is constantly on the forefront of technology (http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/08/04/japanese-robot-can-think-fetches-ice-for-your-drink/) and as the technology evolves into neuron splicing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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 […] Continue reading →

I have found Neuromancer to be a confusing book to read. Besides the plot not making much sense to me until after reading chapters 5-6, what really got me confused was the use of certain words in the world of Neuromancer. To me, word use is pretty important as they can give you a sense […] Continue reading →

            I had typed up most of my blog on Friday, but when I noticed the email with the blog prompt about why Neuromancer is difficult, I figured I could change my blog to focus more on that question.             William Gibson is arguably the father of the Sci-fi sub-genre Cyberpunk. But, what is Cyberpunk? […] Continue reading →

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 […] Continue reading →

One of the ideas we continue to bring up in class with these science fiction novels is what science fiction does that other genres fail to do.  We looked for lines that were being crossed, like the racial boundaries in … Continue reading → Continue reading →