Neuromancer

Gibson does quite a job of using adjectives that relate to technology rather than nature.  This is very fitting for a book about cyberspace and matrices.  I notice this at the very beginning of the story.  Gibson's opening line is "the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" (1).  The use of this image rather than saying it was foggy, drab, or grey, shows Case's jaded opinion about technology and the real world.  At another point, the narrator describes a suit as being the color of gun-metal.  I thought to myself that he could have just as easily called it a suit of charcoal, one of the most fundamentally natural and earthy things.  Even when talking about Molly, Gibson always refers to her burgundy nails, which "looked artificial," alluding to the technology of acrylics (24).  It is as though her nails amaze or enthrall Case in some way.  The mere mention of nature, as in chapter six, is immediately followed up by an unnaturalness: "dead grass tuft[ed] the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete" (85).  This image argues for the superiority of advancement, development, and technology over the natural world.  Another thing that the story does is truly date technologies and support how quickly new technologies can become old technologies.  For instance, when discussing Ratz prosthetic arm, it was described as antique and cased in ruddy pink plastic (4).  But at one time, such a prosthesis was the best there was or all that was available.