The book start of in bar called Chatsubo, owned by a Mr. Ratz. Ratz is has a typical bartender personality and a prosthetic arm. The main character Case's employer Wage (who has green nikon transplants) informs Case that he sold his contract to a man named Armitage essentially ending their relationship. Case is a man who is "down on his luck" and lacks the motivation to live, he has been this way since a toxin was placed in his nervous system enabling his cherished ability to enter cyber space/ the matrix and hack. A woman named Molly (who has mirrored glasses actually mirrors set into her head and 10 retractable blades for nails similar to the comic book hero wolverine) who already works for Armitage takes Case to Armitage. There they talk about the Screaming Fist which was war mission. On that mission they tried to destroy a computer system called Nexus. Case was the one who invented the first virus called the Mole. It was said that only one person made it back. Armitage wants Case to work for him and in return he offers to give him a new top of the line panaceas (his old one would have cause his death within a year). The surgery is very painful. He spends 8 days recovering before is enters cyberspace. They leave Japan and go the Atlanta where Case feels at home.
This novel also really shows that the world itself has become a true global village (they travel so quickly all over the place), but on top of that, they also have the matrix, which in a way is a world beyond.
ReplyDeleteAnother example of the advancements human beings have made.