Technological Transfiguration in William Gibson's Sprawl Novels

Mead, David G. "Technological Transfiguration in William Gibson's Sprawl Novels: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive." Extrapolation 32.4 (Winter 1991): [350]-60.

"In the neuromantic vision of William Gibson, developments in cybernetics, biotechnology, neurochemistry, and so forth offer the opportunity . . . for personal liberation and self-actualization, almost to the extreme of apotheosis. . . . In Gibson's Sprawl trilogy . . . technology permits us to become what we will, to realize our selves, however banal, in ways undreamed of by the countercultural, New Wave technophobe or the Blakean romantic" (353). See M. Glazer on "Neuromanticism," this Category (a Blakean reading with which DGM disagrees and, civilly, takes issue).