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Neuromancer

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)Neuromancer by William Gibson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

My thoughts on Neuromancer.

Neuromancer was written by William Gibson, of course, if one looks up Google and Goodreads you would probably see all the all reviews about the story. This is your classical cyberpunk story. Wiki defines cyberpunk:

"Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of low-life and high tech"[1] featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order"

In fact, Neuromancer actually throws cyberpunk into a subgenre of science fiction. Cybernetics is a way of life, the interconnection of the artificial and the organic is combined very well. The author creates new terminology to define certain aspects of a cybernetic world. For example, the term 'Construct' is used to describe the personality of a person who is already dead. The construction of this individual who has died is created and it is placed in ROM memory. This means there's enough information about this individual to recreate his personality as close a possible to the point.

The passing of consciousness from an organic creature into an artificial one has always been part of the human imagination. Because as humans we do not want to die we want to live forever. The reality is that right now we don't. It is very hard for intelligent organic life-forms like us to accept mortality. Writers of Science Fiction give us the hope that eventually through science human immortality would be achieved. And Neuromancer this is accomplished in a vague way.


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