"Vineland" and "Neuromancer"

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

I've read both _Vineland_ and _Neuromancer_ and find not many 
similarities or traces, one from the other.  In my view anyway, it seems 
that looking at any powerful woman in cyberspace is still, sadly, viewed 
as a phenomenon that must, therefore, have an origin and subsequent 
manifestations that evolve from it.  I suspect that much Japanese 
animation had/has much to do with this, in  a way that resembles Disney's 
perpetual Cinderella/little mermaid/ snow white/belle/pocahontas, etc.  
Protypical women with essentially the same central core beliefs, dreams, 
etc. INteresting that while these cyber-babes SEEM to indicate power and 
an ability to survive in a post-apocalyptic world without the support of 
male partners, they are nonetheless quite often coerced into the Disney 
matrix--often screaming and kicking just like those women from the 
dime-store romances.

diff. to say Gibson seems a point of orgin.  It's the same old thing.

Bonnie