William Gibson’s Neuromancer is Cyberpunk :: Neuromancer

William Gibsons Neuro valet de chambrecer is Cyberpunk Science fictionalization somehow manages to out human characters in situations where the ideas and the thoughts of science and morality be intertwined. Science fiction must have some idea components and some human components to be successful. This novel seems to be a contrast to the believers in technological attainment as it presents a colorful, yet depressing and desolate future. The loss of individualization due to technological advances becomes a major theme in hacker. This presents a dismal view of the individual in society. The hack musical genre veritable from a naked as a jaybird kind of integration. The overlapping of worlds that were formerly separate the commonwealth of high tech, and the modern pop underground (p. 345) 1. Neuromancer not only move into this category, it may be the first cyberpunk novel ever written. Gibsons prose is too dense and tangled for casual readers, such as myself. His characters a re shallow and stereotyped. The character Case has no purpose apart from active in cyberspace and abusing drugs. Molly, his companion, is a mercenary with questionable morals. John Christie seems to flout with my analysis of this novel Gibson constructs characters which are themselves flat images, beings of no psychological depth, but whose interest and significance derive from their semiotic lineage, in comic, film, pulp villainy fiction, and other science fiction (p. 46) 2. (Gibson offers his readers a dystopian novel) (by presenting a cyberpunk world where things are generally bleak and they will become worsened with time and technology.) Cyberpunk is supposed to be the vision of a new technological world. However, the negative portrayal of the integration of technology and society is a fundamental tenet of the literature. This presents a pessimistic view of scientific advancement. The genres dark tones, seen repeatedly in Neuromancer, emphasize the bleak images end-to-end th e futuristic fiction. The constant conflict between the individual and a technologically advanced society is a major theme as it stresses mans insignificance. These characteristics are interwoven into the fabric of cyberpunk and form a bleak image of science fiction and the future. Gibson is very vague when describing the particular architecture and nuances of technology used in the designs of the futuristic objects. This lack of defined details is due to the fact that cyberpunk literature resists the concepts of technology. The basic precepts of the cyberpunk genre consists of technology as hindrance to man, stories that are saturated in dark and dreary themes, and a character, Case, that will either fail or conform to a structured society.