Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpesoc1!hpindda!janke From: janke@hpindda.HP.COM (Randy Janke) Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Subject: Re: Why Cyberpunk is popular -- the computer expert as Cowboy Message-ID: <5960002@hpindda.HP.COM> Date: 14 Dec 87 17:58:08 GMT References: <1237@looking.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 16 > Gibson created a world where the computer whiz could be a real, honest to > goodness, cowboy style gritty action-hero, without it seeming silly. ???????????? I dont think that I would label any of the characters in Neuromancer with a 'hero' tag. Nueromancer provides an exotic vision into the street-smarts (and underground) of a high tech future. To be a hero, one needs a single sustaining motivation to a goal. The characters within Neuromancer, did not seem to control their own motivation. In contrast, they seemed more like animals in a skinner box that were trying to interact (sometimes randomly) in an extremely variable environment. I really liked Neuromancer, but I shrink from anyone attributing heroics within the context of the plot. For Gibson fans, _Cinefantastique_ reports that Gibson is working on a screen play for ALIENS III. -rj-