brucec@orca.UUCP (06/22/84)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Neuromancer References: <1356@vice.UUCP> I bought "Neuromancer" because I was curious to see if the book carried the ideas in "True Names" any further. I didn't think that the concept of cyberspace was at all well developed or described (though it would probably look all right in a movie, in fact it reminded me of the arcology cityscape of "Bladerunner"), so I was somewhat disappointed. Once I got over the disappointment at the book being something other than what it was hyped up to be, and what I'd hoped it was, though, I found it generally good reading. Keith Lofstrom is right, it is very gloomy, and rather anti-climactic, but the subcultures which are shown are well-visualized and the characters are more than just cardboard (even the AI is believable, if not comprehensible). Not great, but worth reading. Incidently, does anyone out there remember a series of short stories published in Amazing (or maybe Fantastic (great magazine titles, no?)) in the early '70s, based on a character by the name of Queer Sal? The tone (hi-tech punk) and the mood (gloom and doom) of "Neuromancer" remind me of them. Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!tektronix!orca!brucec CSNET: orca!brucec@tektronix ARPA: orca!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay USMail: M/S 61-183 Tektronix, Inc. P.O. Box 1000 Wilsonville, OR 97070