The sentence vividly and efficiently captures the blurring of nature, technology, reality, and representation that Neuromancer's plot, setting, and characters reveled in. In his 2009 novel Despite having a meaning in our world that is the opposite of what it was in 1984, Gibson's original sentence holds some of its power still, especially for those of us who remember a world where television shows beamed into our homes through antennas rather than cables. Scott ( Dreamships Burning Bright ) seems more interested in using her command of the genre to explore such subjects as the importance of friendship, the strength and intelligence of women, lesbian eroticism and the workings of community.The opening sentence of Neuromancer is among the most famous of any science fiction novels': "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." In 1984, when Neuromancer was first published, the color of a dead TV channel was sparkling grey.
Their many adventures include a virtual-reality equivalent of a high-noon shootout, but loose plotting weakens the tension surrounding most of their escapades, as problems unexpectedly resolve or are simply dropped.
To save her own job and to clear her ex-lover's name, Cerise must team up with Trouble again. Three years later, Cerise is working for an industrial corporation when someone begins impersonating Trouble on the nets, stealing secrets and leaving viruses behind. Trouble predicts these changes and goes legit. Both women have been wired with the newest technology, a ``brainworm'' that enables them to receive sensations when they're plugged in-a development despised by the older, mostly male heterosexual ``netwalkers.'' When Congress passes the Evans-Tindale bill to outlaw the brainworm, life on the net threatens to become more dangerous.
Cerise and Trouble are lesbian lovers who plug into computer networks to steal industrial secrets to sell on the gray market. Scott's talents for creating a future both hauntingly familiar and exotically remote are showcased in this feminist cyberpunk romp.
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