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 legendalization or it could be cyberpunk. Technology is pervasive. There is nonhing in our lives that technology 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 rase exist. Traditional science fiction, if there even is such a thing, uses extrapolation as a foundation for its stories. Extrapolation, predicting or tracing a path of continuance for an idea or event, is also used in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is cognise for its use of extrapolation in the fabric of daily life. (Sterling 348) It takes common science fiction themes, such as body and mind employment, and events of daily life and describes them with intensely dizzying detail. Neuromancer by William Gibson is a perfect exampl e 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 old-hat 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 imbedthe steel claws under her nails. Same response. Why is that? He is used to the position 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 keep things. Within a matter of hours Case has had his own body manipulated, his pancreas is replaced, his stemma is changed, and he has new liver tissue whi ch is biochemically incapable of allowing him to shoot high off coke or speed (36). All that and the and thing hes worried about is when hell be able to get back to work The descriptions of these modifications border a unconnected language at times. They are detailed and technically specific, a stylemark of cyberpunk. A head-spinning example of this is the scan of Molly Silicon, coat of pyrolitic carbons.