{"id":27,"date":"2004-05-01T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T08:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:03:09","slug":"neuromancer-william-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/05\/neuromancer-william-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuromancer (William Gibson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cyberpunk, 9\/10 &#8211; Spring 2004<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/neuromancer.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nWow, I&#8217;d never read anything like this before. The language and slang is heavy going but once I got to grips with it I began to love it. I like tech stuff and this kind of literature is just what I&#8217;ve been looking for. A great amount of imagination is required to grasp the abstract nature of &#8220;the matrix&#8221;. Perhaps, being a coder myself helped to inspire me. The book is basically about the creation of a new being, a merger of AI to form something so powerful as to be a digital god.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I like that way that complete weirdness can be believable because it&#8217;s in the matrix. However, I am bugged by Peter Riviera, a psychopath who is able to create holograms with the force of his mind (Magic in the matrix is fine, but not in the real world)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyberpunk, 9\/10 &#8211; Spring 2004 Wow, I&#8217;d never read anything like this before. The language and slang is heavy going but once I got to grips with it I began to love it. I like tech stuff and this kind of literature is just what I&#8217;ve been looking for. A great amount of imagination is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-cyberpunk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}