William Gibson’s Neuromancer is the Penultimate Cyberpunk Novel :: Neuromancer

William Gibsons Neuromancer is the Penultimate cyberpunk Novel It could be the near future or the distant future. It could be in the biggest companies or in your den. It could be traditional science metaphor or it could be cyberpunk. Technology is pervasive. There is nonhing in our lives that engineering does not touch it doesnt matter if you use it directly, chances are that something (if not everything) in your life relies on technology to function or as yet exist. Traditional science allegory, if there even is such a thing, uses extrapolation as a foundation for its stories. Extrapolation, predicting or tracing a path of lengthiness for an idea or event, is also used in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is cognize for its use of extrapolation in the fabric of daily life. (Sterling 348) It takes common science fiction themes, such as body and mind economic consumption, and events of daily life and describes them with intensely dizzying detail. Neuromancer by William Gibson is a perfect example of cyberpunk writing because it uses this dense, rapid-fire verbal description and language in combination with the themes of body/mind manipulation.The body manipulation in Neuromancer is so obvious its accepted as habitual to the characters. When Case first meets Molly, her eyes draw his attention. He first thinks shes wearing glasses, but then realizes that the lenses grow fromher cheekbones and are surgically inclose into her eye sockets. (Gibson 24) Does he find this odd? Does he question it at all? Nope. He recognizes it, makes a note of it, and moves on to her next setthe steel claws under her nails. Same response. Why is that? He is used to the detail that bodies are meant to be manipulated. Gibson even gives the reader a push in that direction by naming the lead Caseas in he is nothing but a case in which to hold on things. Within a matter of hours Case has had his own body manipulated, his pancreas is replaced, his line of merchandise is changed, and he has n ew liver tissue which is biochemically incapable of allowing him to stop high off coke or speed (36). All that and the wholly thing hes worried about is when hell be able to get back to work The descriptions of these modifications border a outside language at times. They are detailed and technically specific, a hallmark of cyberpunk. A head-spinning example of this is the scan of Molly Silicon, coat of pyrolitic carbons.