Neuromancer: not only Ogres are like onions

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Neuromancer is complex, dense and imaginative. Partly written in slang; a few words describe complex ideas and concepts, many personages enter and leave the scenes, there is much going on in a few words. It's like an onion. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Neuromancer has layers. It makes the book fascinating, thrilling and mind-blowing. A drug, an addiction, a fascination. Written in 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer is considered the first cyberpunk novel, bringing the Matrix, cyberspace, simstims, Zion, and virtual reality to a large audience. You can write a book about Neuromancer. That's why, in this blog, we only will focus on the link between Neuromancer and the Matrix with occasionally a side step.

Neuromancer
The protagonist in Neuromancer is Case, a low life, a drug addict, somebody we would call a loser, an anti-hero. He wasn't always like that. He was one of the best cyberspace hackers, called console or computer cowboys. When he stole from one of his clients, they damaged his nervous system so severely that he could no longer log in to cyberspace. However, he kept on dreaming about it: "All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken, the corners he'd cut in Night City and still he'd seen the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across the colourless void​."
An AI from the…