They’ve encountered Elves on their travels, watched Bilbo disappear, and Frodo has learned about the diabolical nature of the Ring and the stakes of destroying it. By page 200 in Fellowship, Frodo and his friends have already made it through the Old Forest, the Barrow-Downs, and the encounter with the Ringwraith on the road. If you read the first book in the Earthsea series, you know Ged becomes Ogion’s apprentice, travels to Roke, stays a year in Kurremkarmerruk’s tower learning runes, builds a rivalry with Jasper, unleashes a gebbeth on the world, fights a clan of dragons to a stand-still, finds the Ring of Erreth Akbe on an abandoned sandbar, and travels to the end of the world to confront his own death in 183 pages. In the space of 270 pages, the same length that entire masterpieces of fantasy/sci-fi have been written, nothing of substance had even appeared to give me a reason to finish the book. There were no characters I cared about, no aspects of the world that captured my imagination, and nothing in the plot that made me keep turning pages. is where I stopped reading The Eye of the World from sheer disinterest. All of its minutely detailed worldbuilding, its revelations about Riviera and Wintermute, and Case’s struggles to get over Linda Lee are encapsulated in those 270 pages. The entire story of Neuromancer took place in 270 pages. And if you’re like me, you remember the last line, “He never saw Molly again.” You remember the sequence when Case jacks into the matrix to take on the T.A. You remember McCoy Pauley, the “Flatline,” his accent, and his bizarre dead man’s laugh. If you read Neuromancer, you remember the surreal paradise of Straylight, the space station Case and the crew travel to.
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