Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece--a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future. The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace... Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future--a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece--a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future. The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace... Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future--a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.
William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.
Praise for Neuromancer
“Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its
implications.”—The New York Times
“Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, decadent...an amazing virtuoso
performance.”—The Washington Post
“Science fiction of exceptional texture and vision...Gibson opens
up a new genre, with a finely crafted grittiness.”—San Francisco
Chronicle
“Epic in scale...shimmers like chrome in a desert sun.”—The Wall
Street Journal
“A revolutionary novel.”—Publishers Weekly
“In with the ruthless violence, the hyperreality, the betrayal and
death, is an unquenchable love of language. Gibson has that in
common with Le Guin and with J. G. Ballard. Neuromancer sings to us
as a collage of voices, a mixed chorus, some trustworthy and others
malicious, some piped through masks.”—James Gleick
“Streetwise SF... one of the most unusual and involving narratives
to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon.”—London
Times
“Unforgettable...the richness of Gibson’s world is
incredible.”—Chicago Sun-Times
William Gibson fans will welcome the 20th-anniversary edition of Neuromancer, the SF novel that launched cyberpunk and anticipated the Internet age. Gibson provides a new introduction, "The Sky Above the Port." Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Praise for Neuromancer
"Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its
implications."-The New York Times
"Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, decadent...an amazing virtuoso
performance."-The Washington Post
"Science fiction of exceptional texture and vision...Gibson opens
up a new genre, with a finely crafted grittiness."-San Francisco
Chronicle
"Epic in scale...shimmers like chrome in a desert sun."-The Wall
Street Journal
"A revolutionary novel."-Publishers Weekly
"In with the ruthless violence, the hyperreality, the betrayal and
death, is an unquenchable love of language. Gibson has that in
common with Le Guin and with J. G. Ballard. Neuromancer
sings to us as a collage of voices, a mixed chorus, some
trustworthy and others malicious, some piped through masks."-James
Gleick
"Streetwise SF... one of the most unusual and involving narratives
to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon."-London
Times
"Unforgettable...the richness of Gibson's world is
incredible."-Chicago Sun-Times
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