slp’s Reviews > Neuromancer > Status Update

i can appreciate the aesthetic. as usual Gibson has sentence level power and ambitious ideas...but i find the whole novel curiously soulless. all plot, not much actual character/human development/impact, which feels wrong for a book so inherently about power, class, technology, addiction. read online it holds up better as noir vs sci fi that comments on society and that feels ok, tho noir is v poetic/philosophical.