Think of them like apartment buildings the size of a small city. (Some of these terms may be inaccurate since we all picture something different in all of our heads, so let me know if you find anything.)Īrcology / Geodesic / Fuller Dome: HUMUNGOUS geodesic domes in the middle of cities that contain small societies and ecosystems that are entirely self-sufficient and can survive without any interaction with the outside world (they grow their own food, generate their own power, and produces their own water). There may be some terms from the later books in the Sprawl Trilogy as well, but it never hurts to know those too. If you’d rather just get into Neuromancer or finished the short stories and still don’t understand some of the vocabulary, here’s a list of everything I can think of that’s relative to Neuromancer. This is a little of William Gibson’s style, but this is also due to the fact that he wrote three short stories set earlier in the timeline that had already defined some of the terms (Johnny Mnemonic, Burning Chrome, and New Rose Hotel). Neuromancer can be a bit of a shock to new readers, the amount of words it suddenly throws at you without any explanation whatsoever or enough context to work out what they mean.
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