'Case watched a drone ..

.. microlight bank gracefully in an updraft at the greenverge of an artificial mesa, lit for seconds by the soft glow ofthe invisible casino. The thing was a kind of pilotless biplaneof gossamer polymer, its wings silkscreened to resemble a giantbutterfly. Then it was gone, beyond the mesa's edge. He'd seen a wink of reflected neon off glass, either lenses or the turrets of lasers. The drones were part of the spindle's securitysystem, controlled by some central computer.'

I'm finally reading 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson. It is very interesting, but it's also a hard read - because he uses a lot of words you could not possible know what means, and sometimes he doesn't explain them.. like mesa.. what the hell is mesa? It just hangs there, and you have to imagine what it could be from the context it is put in. It is sometimes fun, sometimes really annoying. But I am enjoying the book.

I have already written an essay about the book (check this blog on Sunday, March 28, 2004) , well, it's about sci fi literature and cyberpunk in relation to what is actual happening in 'cyberspace' today. Yes, I know, before I even read it.. I didnt have time ok, it was an assignment!

Many of the 'unknown' words in Neuromancer are actually real words today, like the matrix and cyberspace. Gibson was the first to describe what cyberspace is:

`Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimateoperators, in every nation, by children being taught mathe-matical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstractedfrom the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace ofthe mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...'