Neuromancer

William Gibson

Phantasia Press, 1986 - Fiction - 231 pages

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 ...

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 23
• Section 3: 37

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Neuromancer
• Author: William Gibson
• Publisher: Phantasia Press, 1986
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Sep 12, 2011
• ISBN: 0932096417, 9780932096418
• Length: 231 pages
• Subjects: Business intelligence; Computer hackers; Computer networks; Conspiracies; Cybernetics; Fiction; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech; Information superhighway; Japan; Nervous system; Virtual reality