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Week11 : Neuromancer (5pt)

 11/21/2020

This week I read Neuromancer by William Gibson. Most of the science fiction stories I have read are good at telling stories and full of climaxes and surprises. But Neuromancer is not like that. The story is surprisingly simple: in the future, a self-conscious AI wants to be free and hires a hacker, a female killer, a special forces officer, and a mind control expert to steal a key and get a password. There was nothing new about the adventure story, and it wasn't much going on to attract me to keep reading.

What actually makes me want to read on is curiosity. I feel like I was “fooled” by the author because he breaks the world into pieces. Each piece is scattered in every action of the "Group of Four". I feel like I am like a collector, who collects the valuable pieces when I see them. This is kind of the way I like how a story is written. I have to put all my mind into it, fumble between the lines, can't miss a piece, and feel very engaged. When I finish puzzling them back and complete the story, there is a sense of accomplishment. The only trouble is just having my brain constantly thinking and puzzling, sometimes it could be a little bit tiring. 

Even Though it’s hard to read and puzzle at the same time, it would be nicer to watch the story in a film format, and Neuromancer does feel like many other cyberpunk stories.

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