Hard Sci-Fi Scares Me

I like science fiction, but hard sci-fi, like William Gibson always scares me off. I can't even perceive half the stuff he's talking about. Does anybody else have this problem? I feel really dumb reading stuff like "Neuromancer". That said, I love Asimov and have always enjoyed how simple his books were to read. I think it's all because of how interesting his characters are. Asimov always put characters before the science. I tried to do that with my book, The Darkness of the Womb. Some weird stuff happens in my horror/fantasy novel, but I tried to put the characters first. I hope it worked. I'll let you be the judge though.

Thanks for reading about my musings. Neuromancer