Neuromancer
William Gibson
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards
1996 at Eliane's House
Synopsis
The Matrix: a world within a world, a graphic representation
of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a
consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of
legitimate users in the Sprawl alone. And by Case, computer
cowboy, until his nervous system is grievously maimed by a
client he double-crossed. Japanese experts in nerve splicing
and microbionics have left him broke and close to dead. But
at last Case has found a cure. He's going back into the system.
Not for the bliss of cyperspace but to steal again, this time
from the big boys, the almighty megacorps. In return, should
he survive, he will stay cured.
First lines
The sky abover the port was the color of television,
tuned to a dead channel.
'It's not like I'm using,' Case heard someone say, as
he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door
of the Chat. 'It's like my body's developed this massive
drug deficiency.' It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke.
The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you
could drink there for a week and never hear two words in
Japanese.
Published reviews
A masterpiece that moves faster than the speed of thought
and is chilling its implications.
The New York Times
Gibson is up your alley. He is a technological fantasist
with unparalleled sensitivity ... wired direct to the mains.
NME
Set for brainstun ... one of the most unusual and involving
narratives to be read in many an artificially blue moon.
The Times
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