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A review by youraveragedave
Neuromancer by William Gibson
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
As another review said, it's hard to review seminal works years after the fact because you've injested so many works that were inspired by and surpassed the work. If not for Necromancer we wouldn't have The Matrix or Altered Carbon.
This would have been mind-blowing to read this book on the 80s or early 90s. But in the 2020s this seems more like history. The idea of cyberspace or logging into a shared internet or matrix, it interacting with an AI is so commonplace to us now.
The characters are pretty one dimensional. I kinda got bored with the plot, I kept thinking of Altered Carbon's plot and how many stories involve uploading a virus into the computer system to beat the bad guy.
This would have been mind-blowing to read this book on the 80s or early 90s. But in the 2020s this seems more like history. The idea of cyberspace or logging into a shared internet or matrix, it interacting with an AI is so commonplace to us now.
The characters are pretty one dimensional. I kinda got bored with the plot, I kept thinking of Altered Carbon's plot and how many stories involve uploading a virus into the computer system to beat the bad guy.