Famous First Line

Famous First Line

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

This line is from the novel Neuromancer, which was published in the year 1984 by the author William Gibson, who was born in 1948 and is still alive. This author is also known for other works, including Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

In Neuromancer Case from Japan has a problem with his computer program. Through the razor girl Molly he gets in contact with Armitage a military man, who offers him to repair it in return for a hacking job. Case enters and he and Molly start a mission that brings both of them in great danger. However, at the end they get the password they need and the novel ends happily.

A more extensive summary can be found here.

Critics about Neuromancer recognize the great influence the novel has and honor it and the author for that. It was his book that made the word “cyberspace” to a term used to talk about the internet. They like the complexity, too. Other readers complain that Gibson uses to many difficult words, what makes it difficult to understand the novel.

This is a review of someone who actually read this book.

I don’t think that I ever will read this novel. The genre alone, that it is a pure Science-fiction novel makes it very uninteresting for me. But due to the reviews, even for a science-fiction novel it seems to use a very difficult language, especially for inexperienced readers. However, I think it is interesting that this book made the word “cyberspace” popular