Necromancer

Broadly speaking, science fiction and fantasy are both branches of romantic literature; they share with other forms of romance an emphasis on adventure plots and a lesser concern for the mimetic representation of ordinary life (Perkins, p. 952). Such stories are often escapist or wish-fulfilling on one level, speculative on another, and mythmaking on a third. They tend to extrapolate the lessons of science and technology into settings that are significantly different from the world as readers have known and experienced it (Perkins, p. 952). Often, such stories explore ideas illustrated through the examinations of future, alternative, or past (real and imagined) civilizations.

Science fiction and fantasy literature should not, however, be regarded as a relatively homogenous genre. The variations in them, setting, characterization, explication of plot, subject matter, and other vital elements of any form of fiction to be found within

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17). So powerful is the matrix, that it controls and manipulates Case’s thoughts and sensations. At one point, he sense that he is with Linda in the arcade; through the mere act of smiling, “Something cracked. Something shifted at the core of things (Gibson, p. 117).” It is the relationship between the human and the world of a virtual reality encapsulated in the matrix that distinguishes Gibson’s novel and its setting from others. Certainly, when Asimov wrote The Foundation Trilogy, he incorporated computer based technology and alternative visions of how reality can be manipulated into his story. This is nothing new in science fiction but what is new about Gibson’s choice of an environment is that the power of the computer reality is all-powerful. Man is an actor in this reality, but he is only tangentially in control. In a world in which the world wide web and the Internet are being accessed by ten year olds on the family PC, the vision of a cyberpunk future that Gibson produced in 1983 is less novel than it was then. While we certainly do not possess the capacity at the present time to physically move into the “matrix” we can move rather freely across the barriers imposed upon our mobility by time, space, and distance.
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