Neuromancer
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570421560 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Future is Now Alf R. Bergesen Neuromancer is quite simply the greatest, most prescient near-future sci-fi novel ever written. Although Gibson's world is dark and gritty and, in many ways, rather dystopian, I want to live there, or at least visit often. The world-building in Neuromancer is seamlessly organic. There isn't any long-winded exposition regarding how things in the author's world are and . Incredible imagination, incredible writing. Smiling Hotei This book popularized a new genre - cyberpunk. Although Gibson may not have been the first to explore the cyberspace world (e.g., Brunner, Vinge, and others) he entered with a splash, or perhaps a tsunami. What is most ironic is that Gibson wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter, not being a computer user.The opening line of Necromancer is often cited as an example of crea. I loved Neuromancer when I first read it David Kraut I loved Neuromancer when I first read it, years ago. I remember I also loved Count Zero, and Gibson had been an avatar ever since. But now it is what you might call a "science fiction classic", whatever that might mean to you, and while the sci-fi concepts remain out front of our current reality, the hardware lags way behind. I'd say go ahead and buy it: the book dese
But his luck turns when he gets another chance. To take it may cost him his life. But he plays his games close to the edge and double-crosses the wrong people. A hard-boiled futuristic novel, NEUROMANCER uses as its stage the boundless range of modern cyberspace. "Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed and chilling." (The New York Times). Banished from cyberspace and restricted to life in the physical world, Case hits the skids. William Gibson is a guru of science fiction in the computer age, and NEUROMANCER is his "cyberpunk" masterpiece. The author's hero, Case, is a cyberspy, the best in the business
Case 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. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price. Here is the novel that start