Neuromancer (5 points)
I’ll start by saying this book is complicated. It takes place
in the near future for us now but when the book was released it was about a fifty-year
jump into the future. Compared to the world we live in now; this book is vastly
different. I always find it interesting when a book or film is talking about
the future in such incredible and bizarre ways. Films like Blade Runner and Back to the
Future Part ll have already passed our present day. The technology in these
films is not much like our world. Some things are just slightly altered but
many things are completely different. I think part of the uniqueness of the
genre is that it is very different to a world we will ever see or know.
The characters in this book each have a uniqueness to them.
They all have their flaws, but they also each have their own special skills.
The book takes the reader on one long journey while including several smaller
adventures throughout.
This book came out around the time when cyberpunk films were
becoming popular. The classic film, Metropolis
came out decades earlier but it wasn’t really until the 1980s that the genre
started to grow in the film industry.
Right from the beginning of this book, it is clear that
it is similar to many books and films of the cyberpunk genre. One that
immediately comes to mind is Blade Runner.
The film is basically the definition of cyberpunk. In Neuromancer and Blade Runner,
the protagonist is in a relationship with a half human/half android.
The genre has clearly been used in a countless number of
films. The other film that was heavily inspired by Neuromancer is The Matrix.
The film’s title is even a part of the book. It is not surprising to me at all
that this book is one of the most well-known of the cyberpunk genre because it
set the foundation for many books and films to come. The book doesn’t come to a
set conclusion but there are sequels, making it clear that the world built by William
Gibson is even grander than what is in this first book.
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