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Neuromancer

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Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Be Jo Sales, Incorporated | January 7, 1994 | Hardcover

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . . Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful formeremployees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employerrecruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificialintelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. Witha dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Caseembarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer rankswith 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potentvisions of the future.
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    Rating: 4/5

    An iconic book

    Alan Corman

    2 years ago

    This is what a good book is, but it is not a book taken lightly.

    This book will confuse, and it may be hard to get to the end, but it is worth it. Anyone who likes science fiction should read this because Gibson knew what the world would be with the internet and everything that ccomes with it. I re-read this a while back and saw that what is sci-fi today really could be real tomorrow.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Genre Defining

    Jordan Christensen

    • Indigo Employee

    5 years ago

    Gibson's master piece, Neuromancer, effectively created the Cyberpunk genre. Terms such as 'The Matrix', and Cyberspace originated here. It is also one of the most decorated books in all SciFi. A must read for anyone interested in technology, hacking or just an amazingly prescient view of the future.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Cyberpunk begins

    Naboo

    5 years ago

    William Gibson may disagree, but Neuromancer is the alpha work in the cyberpunk genre. Without this, there would have been no Matrix, Wired Magazine or even the term "cyberspace." What's most remarkable about the book is that Gibson was prescient not just about technology but about the culture that has built up around it. (As well, where the technology hasn't caught up to Gibson's predictions, there's a sense of disappointment on the part of reality; the body modifications are to this novel as jetpacks were to Buck Rogers).

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    Jeromy Lloyd

    Rating: 4/5

    Cyber-Fi

    Jeromy Lloyd

    13 years ago

    An incredible book, Gibson has created a new vernacular for science fiction. His clouded plots and motives hang beneath beautifully eccentric descriptions and concepts of the future. He has altered what it means to be a hero, a villain, a wizard, and has irrevocably darkened the view of the future.I don't think anyone is really supposed to fully understand what goes on in this book. It is too densely packed with social and technological terminology. Instead of a quest or linear plot, the reader is given very selective glances at a few very different lives. These lives touch each other ever so briefly, but the effects of this contact are monumental in this world of universes within universes. You sit back and watch the novel progress rather than try to understand it. It welcomes imagination, but then perverts it with startlingly original imagery. Don't avoid this work because it falls under the genre of sci-fi. Nor should you feel daunted by the dense writing or confusing narrative. Just read and read and read. Not only will you be suprised with what you understand by the book's completion, but you'll be suprised by the craving to go back and fit the missing pieces back into the story. The darkest prose, the starkest images and the greyest future imagined make Neuromancer a phenomenal work.

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In celebration of its ten-year anniversary, cyberpunk classic Neuromancer comes to hardcover, with an all-new introduction by the author. "Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed and chilling in its implications".--New York Times. "The first novel to win SF's triple crown--the Hugo, the Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards".--Time

From the Publisher

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . . Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful formeremployees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employerrecruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificialintelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. Witha dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Caseembarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer rankswith 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potentvisions of the future.

About the Author

William Gibson was born on March 17, 1948 in Conway, S.C.. He grew up in a small town in Virginia and developed an interest in science fiction. He dropped out of high school and moved to Canada, where he eventually graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1977. Gibson earned his place in science fiction literary history with the publication of Neuromancer in 1984. Considered the first breakthrough novel written in the cyberpunk style, it won the three major science fiction awards; the Phillip K. Dick, The Hugo, and the Nebula. Set in the fast-paced world of the information superhighway, Gibson shows the negative effects of dealing with technology in cyberspace. His other works, including Mona Lisa Overdrive and the screenplay for the film Johnny Mnemonic, are filled with cynicism, high technology, and underground countercultures.

Edition Details

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Hardcover

288 Pages, 7.24 x 9.41 x 0.98 IN

January 7, 1994

Be Jo Sales, Incorporated


0441000681
9780441000685

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