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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780441012039 Edition: 20th ISBN: 0441012035 Label: Ace Hardcover Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: November 02, 2004 Publisher: Ace Hardcover Studio: Ace Hardcover Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: 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. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. 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. 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. 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.... Product Description: SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADES Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene--it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology. Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson's gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The First, but Not the Best--Still an Excellent ReadJust finished Neuromancer and thought it was a decent read. I've read books in this genre that I liked more, especially The Electric Church by Jeff Somers, but all of these books owe a substantial debt to William Gibson. In the age of cyberspace, it was inevitable that someone would write the first big book like Neuromancer, but Gibson actually did write it. Gibson's world in Neuromancer is richly described and visionary; it's especially visionary when you consider that Gibson wrote ... Read More Rating:  - NEUROMANCER by William GibsonWilliam Gibson's Neuromancer, which won the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Hugo Award, is considered the seminal cyberpunk novel. Indeed, the profound influence of Neuromancer can still be seen in cyberpunk of all kinds, from Shadowrun to Deus Ex to Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Cyberpunk as it exists today largely reflects Gibson's vision, from the use of loner characters to the portrayals of hackers, technology and corporations to the very concept of cyberspace. Neuromancer ... Read More Rating: - If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story...This is the best of Gibson's work. It holds up after several readings and becomes richer and more mind-expanding each time you enter its world of the cyberpunk future that we're living in. Somehow, later work by Gibson doesn't quite measure up to the brilliance of "Neuromancer," at least for me. Hard as I try, I can't get into the characters or even the language of Gibson's later works. I keep wanting to be jacked into the matrix of "Neuromancer," back where I think I belong, back where the world as I know ... Read More Rating: - Lives up to the hypeOkay, now I understand what all the fuss is about. Gibson creates a vivd and engrossing world, entirely believable despite being so fantastic, and does so with a daring, sharp prose style that makes no apologies for bowling forward and leaving slow readers behind. He never holds you by the hand. Never indulges in overt descriptions and filling in all the blanks. It's just quick, cutting, laced with attitude, and on the edge of danger. This was fantastic stuff. Astonishing that this was his first novel. Thankfully ... Read More Rating: - Still Good After All These YearsI first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the time, microcomputer's barely existed and ARPANET hadn't even started the move away from the Defense/Academic community to become the internet. It's truly amazing that such a book is still worthwhile today. It does have ... Read More 
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