Neuromancer
by William Gibson
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....
Book Club Questions for Neuromancer (Fiction)
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I was just checking out Salon.com’s Literary Guide to the world, in particular Vancouver, and happened upon their description of William Gibson:
“Years ago, Gibson’s pure literary talent transcended the boundaries of so-called genre fiction. He is now among the gloomiest and most prescient tourists of where technology is taking human experience, his fiction taking the realized shape of documentary truth.”
I’ve always described Gibson’s works as post-modern fiction for the reason that he doesn’t dream up fantastic, wild ideas of what technology will bring us like flying cars from the whims of the 50’s (which is science fiction). Instead, he digs into the minds of the population, empathizing with desires, needs and hungers and produces a blue print for what will someday come to pass. He has amazing talent for seeing human nature, splicing it with what is technically or theoretically feasible and giving us a taste of the future in his printed pages.
