Assignment 1

The title of the novel is Neuromancer. The author is William Gibson. The year of publication is 1984. The number of pages is 271.

I chose this book as I was meaning to read it anyways, it is a corner stone to the cyberpunk genre, and brings up a lot of material on Transhumanism.

I like the book, a bit slow to get into, but I like it.
About the first 30 pages, I've read.
So far he got drunk in a bar full of people with cybernetic limbs, and described a Dystopian city ruled by corporations. The mood seems to be gritty, and the protagonist flawed.
There seems to be a theme of class struggle, between the Corporations and The people, and the cybernetically enhanced, and the not so enhanced.
Secondary sources are the rest of the books within the series, as well as various books within the genre.

A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope
fading nightly.
This line speaks to me, as I recently watched the new Tron movie. I really quite liked it, and I know it takes a lot of inspiration from this novel. Still, Tron's portayal of Cyberspace is the one I follow to this day. Bright Neon lights, on Black, like green text on a black background. The beauty is in it's simplicity. Assigning values to a world of 1s and 0s. Then again, the world we live in is just composed of atoms and Molecules.