Neuromancer

William Gibson’s, Neuromancer, begins at the scene of a bar where we first meet the main character, Case. In Gibson’s first line of book the book he immediately jumps into describing the scene by making comparisons to technology. He describes the sky above to the image that somebody would see if they were looking at a dysfunctional television screen. One could image this to be static like, gloomy, dark, gray, and sort of fearful. The story then is broken into different sections, and it jumps from present, to past, to simply sections in which background information is given.

As more background information is given regarding the story, we discover that Case is located in a city in Japan, which he refers to Night City. The city is described as a dark place full of technology, cyber networks, illegal transactions regarding technology, and a black market. In the story Case makes a lot of references to the “Matrix.” By doing so, the impression that is given, regarding Night City, is that Night City is a place different from reality, where people can be created and implanted with different things that are not normal to the real word. For example, when Case visits a man by the name of Julius, he mentions that Julius is was one hundred and thirty five years old, something that is not common.

Throughout the first part of the story Case also continuously mentions that the streets and his surroundings are filled with neon lights. Those neon lights tie with technology . The world in which case is living in is far from what is typically considered normal. It is as if though Case is escaping from the real world, from reality, from the possible. This ties into cyberspace because cyberspace is also a manner in which people can be sucked into technology and separate themselves from the real world.