Neuromancer

· Penguin
4.6
752 reviews
Ebook
288
Pages

About this ebook

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.

Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
752 reviews
A Google user
August 24, 2012
I didn't get around to reading this book until 1998 and though it was great. My first experience with Neuromancer was playing the videogame ten years earlier back in 1988. Playing the game first made reading the book much easier since it provided a hands-on context to the technical details the book goes into. Great book (great game too.) But I'm hard pressed to spend $8 for an Andriod version when I already own a copy of the book in physical print form.
Daniel Holland
July 18, 2014
The world of Neuromancer is mostly a textural one, dominated by palettes of gleaming plastics and brushed metals. Yet seeded throughout are fragments of poetry that by themselves are wonderful but in context are elevating, blending disparate imagery into vivid bursts of illustration. At times Gibson’s terse writing style can result in a disjointed presentation of information as the author plays a game of Tetris with his prose, fitting as much information as he can in as few lines as possible. At its worst this creates a confusing and disjointed picture that obscures even the basics of a scene, but at its best this piecemeal transmission of data gives credence to Neuromancer’s fictitious universe by implying the existence of more than what is shown directly through the story. Ultimately Gibson crafts a reading experience that no science fiction lover, or literature lover for that matter, will ever be able to forget.
Chris Myers
January 17, 2013
This is one of those books that will follow you through your life. When i first read it I got my mind mind blown a little. I was young, these subjects were relatively new and I was pretty into table top cyberpunk games. It was like reading Tolkien while you play D&D, which I also did. Later in life, after reading through the rest of Gibson's books, I listened to the audiobook version and was really taken by the level of things I missed the first time. It's been worth the trip every time. A true classic.
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About the author

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.

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