EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Virtual Reality, Interstellar Travel, Picaresque Novel
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Everyone is dirty, out for themselves, incl. protagonist (case = smuggler and murderer) Classic sci i: in media res, for quick narraive immersion. Sci fi borrows from fantasy such as the picaro. Picaro and picaresque in pieces episodic plot chunks of novel correlate with the names of the places: chiba city, bama (the sprawl, istanbul, zion, straylight, cyberspace (the matrix) Will have to piece back together case"s nervous system can no longer be a data pirate and can no longer live part of his life in the virtual world. Classic sci-i: narraive device use of picaro and picaresque: case as rascal, episodic, series of locaions, game/batle of wits. Case smuggles communicaions and medical technologies: hardware, sotware, wetware, data, even human organs, but case is also broken , his nervous system destroyed by a deliberately planted virus. Classic sci fi: device 1: in media res, device 2: picaresque, device 3: science + icion = extrapolaion.
