Neuromancer

The SF novel that launched cyberpunk and anticipated the Internet age. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace, and science fiction has never been the same.

Tells the story of Case, a burnt-out software cowboy forced to do one last job in the infinite bytes of cyberspace. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future, it is a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.One of the most important and influential novels of our time.

Accolades

Winner Hugo Award 1985 Winner Nebula Award 1985 Winner Philip K. Dick Award 1985 Reviews “A mind-bender of a read.” —_The Village Voice_ “Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications.” —_New York Times_ “Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, and decadent…an amazing virtuoso performance…Neuromancer, in every sense, is state-of-the-art.” — The Washington Post “A revolutionary novel.” —_Publishers Weekly_ “Gibson is tapped straight into our collective cultural mainline and shows no sign of stopping.” —_Spin_ “Gibson has revitalized science fiction as no other single force in a generation.” —_Rolling Stone_ “Epic in scale.” —_Wall Street Journal_ “The quintessence of cyberpunk.” —_Washington Post Book World_ Author Biography William Gibson’s feat of imagination, embodied by the seminal “cyberpunk” novel Neuromancer and subsequent sci-fi techno titles, was in presaging the Information Age and coining some of its language even as he remained a technological laggard who eschewed computers.

Author Biography

William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.