Neuromancer

William Gibson

Penguin Group US, Jul 1, 2000 - Fiction - 288 pages

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 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.

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potent visions of the future.

What people are saying

Review: Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)

User Review  - Mamasanscar3 - Goodreads

This book is soooo.... Whoa. It started cyber-wel everything. By the time you reach the Straylight Run if your mind isn't thoroighly and irreversibly blown then give up reading. Amazing.

Review: Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)

User Review  - APShaw - Goodreads

I'm giving this a four because I think I liked it a lot but I'm fairly sure I missed/misunderstood/just didn't understand at all many of the ideas, themes and plot points. I was certainly taken with ...

About the author

William Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Nebula Award in 1984. He is credited with having coined the term "cyberspace," and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. His other novels include All Tomorrow's Parties, Idoru, Virtual Light, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Count Zero. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife and two children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Neuromancer; Ace science fiction
• Author: William Gibson
• Publisher: Penguin Group US, 2000
• ISBN: 110114646X, 9781101146460
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction