Hear my call, I'm chipping in! (Neuromancer D.A.R.E review part 1: Describe)

         Oh lordy, a year late for Cyberpunk, and quite a few months late for the intended purpose of this blog! Hello and welcome back to the only blog whose author spends late nights trying to get their work done and utterly failing on every front. I am your Funk-fearing host, and today at the Reader in Yellow, we're going over a classic that still works, somehow. That's right, I'm talking about Jumanji.

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        Humour is a concept that exists. In case you glossed over the title and the rather large title image, the actual work we're covering this time around is William Gibson's Neuromancer. Without further adieu, let's get to actually talking about this thing.

"In the future, humour will be randomly generated!"

        William Gibson's Neuromancer is essentially THE go-to cyberpunk story, both prototypical and archetypical in its nature. It set up so many tropes that large corporations purged meaning from for the sake of aesthetic that it's almost ironic. From "Console Cowboys" to shiny chrome limbs to designer drugs to "Razorgirls"/"Street Samurai"/other enhanced hired guns to powerful AIs, Neuromancer has it all. Contrary to popular belief, however, William Gibson did not coin the term "CyberPunk". That'd be Bruce Bethke. That fun fact aside, Gibson's work did create numerous things that future generations constantly plagiarize from to this day. 

        The story follows Case, a former VR hacker man, called a "Console Cowboy", who essentially lost the ability to enter the "voluntary hallucinations" that VR is within the context of the story during events preceding the happenings of the novel. After his significant other is killed, he's recruited by a RazorGirl going by the obviously fake name of Molly Millions to work for some guy called Armitage. In return, he receives an augmented liver to prevent him from dying on the job due to overdose (he still somehow manages to nearly overdose, but that comes in later) and the ability to use VR once more.

        Of course, all good things in the corporate ruled dystopia that is Cyberpunk come with a price. And the price, in Case's case (haha, I'm not funny!) is a ticking timer threatening to strip him of his rediscovered hacking abilities once more, should he fail to do the tasks Armitage ordered him. Not to mention, he's once more crossed multiple corporations and lawbringers, resulting in a wild chase to unite Wintermute, Armitage's mysterious benefactor, with another, more mysterious AI. The mystery of what happens once that AI is rendered whole permeates the novel, and it's quite intriguing indeed. Obviously if you've read the novel, you know the other half of the AI is known as the Neuromancer, so there's that. 

        In short, as one of the original Cyberpunk classics, Neuromancer brings the cyber, it brings the punk, and most importantly, it brings the action. And humorous character dynamics. Speaking of humorous, William Gibson's not too shabby himself, especially with the shot he took at the disaster that was 2077.

No offense to 2077 fans, but William Gibson is an absolute madlad.

        Wow, I managed to go an entire post without overtly mentioning Funk. Well, brace yourself, because you know exactly what joke I'm going to make in the next posts. Yes, I'm totally going to stoop as low as puns. I apologize in advance.