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Thoughts on Neuromancer?
Just finished reading Neuromancer and discussing it for class, and I was wondering what the B&A community had to say about it. Apparently it was 'the' book that really revolutionized the sci-fi genre, even coining such terms as 'The Matrix' and 'cyberspace.' No joke. My only real complaint is that my professor didn't go over the book that extensively, at least in terms of things other than plot. Oddly enough, I was able to understand the plot reasonably well just from reading the book, imagine that.
Bottom line, anyone have any thoughts on the book that they'd care to share, some insights they got from it, what some things could potentially be symbolism in there or representative of something, etc?
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- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I read it some years ago, and recall that at the time it was considered The Next Big Thing. I also read his Mona Lisa Overdrive. Sad to say, I did not get a lot of meaning out of either of them. Of course the problem may be that since I started reading s-f when Heinlein and Bradbury were The Next Big Thing, I may simply be too old to "get" Neuromancer et al. For sure, I didn't really "get" it, except as a view of a possible future where the Net becomes peoples' life. Hmmm, not too different from today, right?
Really, I salute you for getting good meaning out of Neuromancer. I wish you could explain it to _me_!