Neuromancer
Author: William Gibson Category: Science Fiction Published: January 1, 1984 Language: English File Size: 971 KB Tags: Classics | Cyberpunk | Dystopia | Fantasy | Fiction | novel | Science fiction | Speculative Fiction |Theme:
Neuromancer by William Gibson, explores the theme of alienation, technology, and identity.
Summary:
The title “Neuromancer” is a combination of two key elements: “neuro” and “mancer.” In this context, “neuro” refers to the nervous system, particularly the brain and its functions, while “mancer” is derived from “necromancer,” which traditionally refers to someone who communicates with the dead or predicts the future.
Famous Quotes:
“Wintermute was hive mind … effecting change in the world … Neuromancer was personality. Neuromancer was immortality.”
“Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.”
“Anybody any good at what they do, that’s what they are, right?”
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”
“You can’t let the little pricks generation-gap you.”
“For … years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible.”
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
“Unlike my brother. I create my own personality. Personality is my medium.”
“Very flash. What he imagines, you see.”
“You dead awhile there, mon.”
“The … smart ones are as smart as the Turing heat is willing to let ‘em get.”
“Operators above a certain level tended to submerge their personalities, he knew. ”
“Things aren’t different. Things are things.”
“Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. ”
“She dreamed of a state involving very little in the way of individual consciousness.”
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