Reading Report

    The title of the book I am reading is Neuromacer by William Gibson. It was written in 1984 which makes the subject matter even more so impressive. The book has many ideas and concepts similar to the Matrix movies which came out fifteen years later.
     Henry Dorsett Case (often referred to as Case) is the main character. His job in this book is as a low-level hustler however before you are introduced to him he was very high level computer hacker. He was caught stealing from the gang he was in and the punishment was permanent damage to his nervous system which left him unable to use a keyboard in order to access the (to be put basically) Internet. In the Internet there is a virtual reality database called the Matrix. Case is unemployed due to his damages and is now addicted to drugs.
     Case is picked up by a private company and told only what he needs to know about his job in order to get it done. If he completes this job Case will receive surgery fixing his nervous system. However as part of the agreement Case went through a small surgery disabling him the ability to metabolize drugs which he is upset about.Case soon begins to dig into his employers past finding a military scheme dating back to a major war before the any history mentioned in this book. Case tracks this information further and finds a shocking end. This end however is entirely okay. Case gets paid for his efforts and moves on and begins to replace his organs so he may continue his drug use. And everything is fine.
    Until the epilogue.