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Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton  Could it be that back in 1989 readers were so enthralled by Moran's vision of future technology that they were willing to overlook any shortcomings in the plot and characters -- but now that the novelty of some of his ideas has worn off there is less to hold a reader's interest? Also, with the characters, I felt that I was expected to like them on the basis of the coolness factor alone. But that's the sort of thing that loses its novelty even faster. |
I think you've hit the nail on the head, Teresa. Definitely, Trent is supposed to be cool, and that is supposed to be a likeable characteristic in and of itself. And 1989 was close enough to the publication of Gibson's
Neuromancer (1984) that Moran's cyberfuture vision would still have special cache.
I also think that the novel imitates the chase structure of blow-'em-up movies, which is exciting for certain readers.