During class this week, there was a lot of discussion about Case, with his “Cowboy” job description and lack of personal choice, and about Molly and her street-samurai status and prostitute beginnings. After finishing Neuromancer, I find one of the most interesting characters to be Armitage, or Col. Corto, especially so soon after reading Starship Troopers. In a way, this man’s military background combined with his uncontrolled “life” and death creates an inverse perspective, perhaps even an ironic parody, of the military lifestyle.