Here are some other things you owe to William Gibson and his 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer: something is up in the Matrix, they're facing some heavy ice, and their employer may not be what he seems. Stop me if you've heard this one: a decker, a street samurai, a Rastafarian space pilot, and a sociopathic ex-mercenary go on a run. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance-and a cure-for a price. 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. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace-and science fiction has never been the same.Ĭase 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. 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.
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