William Gibson\u2019s Neuromancer <\/i>was released in 1984.\u00a0 The style of the first edition reflects that.<\/p>\n
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The neon pinks and blues is straight of 1980\u2019s style.\u00a0 Something hope never comes back.\u00a0 It\u2019s alsoquite different from other science fiction novels from that time.\u00a0 Ender\u2019s Game <\/i>by Orson Scott Card and The Vang: The Military form<\/i> by Christopher Rowley.<\/p>\n
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These book covers are in the more science fiction style.\u00a0 The titles in large, bold letters showing off spaceships or aliens.\u00a0 This design style has been going on in science fiction since the 1940\u2019s.\u00a0 The design difference might reflect the style of the bookThe Vang and Ender\u2019s Game<\/i> are set in a far futures with space travel, while Neuromancer\u00a0<\/i> is set in![\"\"](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/e\/e4\/Ender's_game_cover_ISBN_0312932081.jpg\")
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Later editions of Neuromancer<\/i> released n the 1980\u2019s tend to strongly reflect the styles of their time.\u00a0 the 1986 printing is another obvious product of the 1980\u2019s\u00a0 the character on the cover is dressed in full \u201980\u2019s style.\u00a0 A pink jacket with shoulder pads definitely reflect the fashion on the 80\u2019s and hopefully not the period that the book is set in.<\/p>\n
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The cover from 2000 reflects a much different style The background of the cover is a subdued background pattern with a small heavily digitized image.\u00a0 The majority of the cover is occupied by the title on the top and the name of the author on the bottom takes up one third of the cover.\u00a0 This probably reflects the fame of the author.\u00a0 William Gibson is an influential fiction writer and the publisher probably wanted to draw in people have either heard of him, or have read his other works.<\/p>\n
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William Gibson\u2019s Neuromancer was released in 1984.\u00a0 The style of the first edition reflects that. The neon pinks and blues is straight of 1980\u2019s style.\u00a0 Something hope never comes back.\u00a0 It\u2019s alsoquite different from other science fiction novels from that time.\u00a0 Ender\u2019s Game by Orson Scott Card and The Vang: The Military form by Christopher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/67.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m56ojlGpS21qbaom0.jpg\")
Not only do book covers reflect stylistic changes for the period of time they were published. \u00a0They also reflect changing styles within their own genre. \u00a0Sometimes they also buck the trend of the book covers of their genre. \u00a0This was the case\u00a0with the\u00a0Neuromancer<\/em>. \u00a0It was clearly a product of the ’80’s but not of science fiction novels of the 80’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"