Can anyone explain to me what the fuck happened in this book?

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>>9763449
>My biggest question, though, is what the fuck was it all about?

one of the problems with writing about AI is that it's impossible for a human to adequately describe a super-human intelligence. a few writers have tried, with varying degrees of success - some imagine it would be godlike, some imagine it would be cruel, and William Gibson is demonstrating that it might be like nothing we can imagine.

i'm reminded of that toy that when you turn it on, a hand comes out of the box and turns it off again.

>>9763449
It's not hard to understand, it was just bullshit.

NeuroMute an heroed becuz God.
Can't remember about the icebreaker. I think it might have used the genetech.
Yeah no it's a mess. I really don't like Count Zero.
Finn's not dead.
Turner's a mass murderer my friend.

>>9763449
mona lisa overdrive will give some answers (but not a lot) and is generally a lot better imo. iirc neuromancer and winter mute were fundamentally opposed to each other (remember neuromancer didn't want to be reunited in the first place) so that sort of schizophrenia might've been part of the reason they broke apart. I don't remember why the AIs took voodoo personalities, probably because they thought it would be the best representation of them in cyberspace for whatever reason. icebreaker, don't remember anything about it, yeah count zero as a whole didn't seem to know what it was about so I agree with you there. I would say the Virek plot line was probably the closest it had to an overrall point. Mona Lisa Overdrive is p good though so I'd reccomend you check it out.

Should fans of Nick Land read Gibson?

>>9766101
no fans of nick land should off themselves :P

>>9764652
>Finn's not dead.

yeah, he's just cosplaying as an ATM. hahaha

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In the first book, the AI’s merged and caused the matrix to become self-aware. It then splits into several entities with an imperative to make “deals” with mortals. Voodoo spirituality was probably the closest human analog to resemble the way they function, so this was the form they chose to take. It is never explained why they interface with humanity in this way and Mona Lisa Overdrive will not answer this, but suffice it to say that an awareness of oneself isn’t the only implication of consciousness.
The reason behind Virek's interest in the Cornell-style boxes is related to indications of biosoft construction in the design of one, which he suspects may be contained in the others. His company seeks Angela for the plans for biosoft construction that her father implanted into her brain. Her father also altered her nervous system to allow her to access the matrix indirectly, not unlike Lain. It was she who saved Bobby in his botched attempt to hack a black ICE database.
The “gods” orchestrate most of the events in the novel to enable the disposal of Virek, not unlike how the events in the first book was an elaborate effect of WM’s imperative to merge with NM. I don’t think it’s about anything, if not perhaps about the triumph of life over corporate greed. If it can be called life. Except for hackers, most of humanity remains unaware that the Matrix has become home to sentient beings.
No, the Finn isn’t dead.
Mona Lisa Overdrive will and will not answer your questions. The only way to find out is to actually read it. It doesn’t top Neuromancer, but it’s a worthy conclusion insofar as the Sprawl was intended as a trilogy.

Turner resolved to protect Lain and find out who is pursuing her and to what end. We are shown his flaws to make him more relatable. While Marly is mostly out to save her own ass, and Bobby is just sort of along for the ride.

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