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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