Neuromancer
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570421560 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed and chilling." (The New York Times). But his luck turns when he gets another chance. The author's hero, Case, is a cyberspy, the best in the business. But he plays his games close to the edge and double-crosses the wrong people. To take it may cost him his life. Banished from cyberspace and restricted to life in the physical world, Case hits the skids. A hard-boiled futuristic novel, NEUROMANCER uses as its stage the boundless range of modern cyberspace. William Gibson is a guru of science fiction in the compute
Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price. Dick Award. Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.
"The Future is Now" according to Alf R. Bergesen. Neuromancer is quite simply the greatest, most prescient near-future sci-fi novel ever written. Although Gibson's world is dark and gritty and, in many ways, rather dystopian, I want to live there, or at least visit often. The world-building in Neuromancer. Incredible imagination, incredible writing. Smiling Hotei This book popularized a new genre - cyberpunk. Although Gibson may not have been the first to explore the cyberspace world (e.g., Brunner, Vinge, and others) he entered with a splash, or perhaps a tsunami. What is most ironic is that Gibson wrote Neuromanc. I loved Neuromancer when I first read it David Kraut I loved Neuromancer when I first read it, years ago. I remember I also loved Count Zero, and Gibson had been an avatar ever since. But now it is what you might call a "science fiction classic", whatever that might mean to you, and while the sci-fi concepts