Reading response to Neuromancer

Neuromancer. How did it make me feel? I felt alternatively disgusted and thrilled. I felt interested, and bored. Some things seemed exotic and some things seemed far too normal. The book seemed a paradox of extremes at times.

It took about two-three chapters, but I realized that I had already read Neuromancer before. I finished the book, and I enjoyed it. Both the first and second readings were enjoyable. But one of the things most enjoyable to me was just like in Starship Troopers, and a number of other great Sci-Fi books, things happen behind the novel that prop it up. Never is it said explicitly in the novel that there was a World War, or some kind of culmination of the cold war. I inferred that from the Screaming Fist incident with Corto that at least some sort of conflict occurred.

Response To Heinlein’s Starship Troopers

DOES THIS WORK?

Kidding. I just finished Starship Troopers, and was favorably impressed compared to the movie. All I had remembered from the movie was a basic action movie set in space. The book was clearly far deeper.

Interestingly enough, there seems to be a large amount of race and gender interplay in Starship Troopers. Females being better pilots stood out from the beginning, and then there were numerous references to women as part of the reason why the M. I. fought. Interesting.

More to come later?