Average Bufph Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
William Gibson
2000-07-01
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.
Gibson's seminal work in the cyberpunk genre offers a labyrinthine exploration of consciousness, technology, and the human condition. The narrative's intricate web of interconnected systems and characters serves as a metaphor for the complexities of modern existence. The novel's philosophical inquiries into the nature of reality and identity are both stimulating and disconcerting, making it a thought-provoking addition to the canon of speculative fiction. The prose, while at times opaque, is a testament to the author's visionary imagination and his ability to craft a world that is both alien and eerily familiar.
