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Article: William Gibson's Neuromancer: cyberpunk and the end of humanity/William Gibson'in Neuromancer Adli Eseri: siberpunk ve insanligin sonu.(Critical essay)
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- March 22, 2009
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William Gibson's Neuromancer starts out in Chiba City in Japan with Henry Dorsett Case, a hustler in a dystopian world, getting caught stealing from his employer and having his nervous system damaged by a wartime Russian mycotoxin that deprives him of ability to use his brain-computer interface to hack into global computer network of cyberspace. Case, who is now unemployable, was addicted to drugs and alcohol and even suicidal, but now searches for the Chiba "black clinics" for a miracle cure of his mycotoxin and other problems. At the end of chapter one, Molly Millions, a razorgirl street samurai with extensive cybernetic modifications--including retractable 4 cm ...
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... ... others it is comical - the flying machines in question flap their wings like birds. Present-day science-fiction author William Gibson recounts this story with glee. He says Wells so desperately wanted to be right, he crowed about his successful predictions ...
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