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Neuromancer [Kindle Edition]

William Gibson (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
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Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in Earth's computer matrix. Then he double- crossed the wrong people.… Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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‘Set for brainstun…one of the most unusual and involving narratives to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon!’ The Times

‘A masterpiece that moves faster than the speed of thought and is chilling in its implications’ New York Times

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 368 KB
  • Print Length: 323 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0006480411
  • Publisher: Voyager (28 April 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004XOZ8B0
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,703 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant, groundbreaking book. 29 Mar 2005
By John E. Davidson
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderful book - original, packed with ideas and simply crackling with energy and wit. Gibson has documented incredible, wild vision of the (near) future. It is a world of high technology and low life, a world where designer drugs and surgical enhancements are ubiquitous. In writing this book, he created (or at least popularised) a new genre: cyberpunk.

Neuromancer is not perfect. The characterisation is patchy (at best), some of the dialogue is stilted and the plot occasionally meanders but it is a still tremendous piece of work that has stood the test of time quite well.

Note that this is the first part of a trilogy and as such leaves a number of questions hanging. The other parts of the trilogy Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are also very good and complete the story nicely.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Remember when this was written. 6 Sep 2006
By Ben W
Format:Paperback
I don't often foray into sci-fi and certainly not cyberpunk, but I found this fascinating. Not great, definitely not perfect, but intriguing and challenging.

The challenge comes mostly in the jargon-loaded language, but that wasn't half as tough to penetrate as I expected. Simultaneously it also provided the greatest reward - bearing in mind when this book was conceived it displays some fascinating insights and prophecies around the future of technology.

Beyond that, I have a suspicion that the book is not quite as deep as it makes out! Case and Molly are the sort of protagonists that a good book needs; special but flawed. I certainly think an opportunity was missed to deliver more richness to these and other characters, but this will hopefully develop through the trilogy. The story itself is also subservient to the technological vision, but again it does set up the following books.
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53 of 59 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Dated? Maybe, but a book to read before you die! 12 Sep 2006
By Rod Williams
Format:Paperback
Like a bullet to the head, Neuromancer (and Gibson) arrived in 1984 to almost universal acclaim and allegedly kick-started the Cyberpunk movement which has influenced certain branches of SF ever since. Whether or not they choose to call their work cyberpunk or not is immaterial. The work of Simon Ings, Grimwood, Chris Moriarty, Michael Swanwick and dozens of others would arguably not have been the same had this novel not been as successful as it was.
The prose is fast, clever, snappy, set against a background of half-working neon in streets where disposable computer equipment is strewn like empty fast food cartons.
Our hero, Case, is a cyber-freelancer, able to jack himself into computer-systems and experience cyberspace as a three dimensional reality. Case, however, tried to steal from one of his more dubious clients who subsequently infected him with a Russian mycotoxin, effectively rendering him incapable of cyberspace work and therefore unemployable. We therefore meet him, down on his luck, and mixing with some rather eccentric characters in a downtown bar in Japan.
For me, it reads like `The Maltese Falcon in Space'. There is a pervasive noir element, since Case - like many a Nineteen-Forties gumshoe - is forced to take on a job, the full details of which he is not fully aware. There's a beautiful and dangerous woman (by the name of Molly) and a mysterious benefactor, as well as a supporting cast of neon-lit lowlife.
Like any classic noir novel, the action and the protagonists move between street level and the crazy billionaire family who are literally `above the clouds', since they live within their own Las Vegas style space station.
It's exciting, challenging, dense with atmosphere, and very much deserves its cult status as a modern classic.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Dawn of Cyberpunk 28 May 2002
By SG Wilson
Format:Paperback
Gibsons first feature length novel is a real eye opener.
Equally adept at describing the gritty, near future locations of the sprawl as the ephemeral, dreamscapes of cyberspace.
Despite being written way back in the mid eighties he paints a picture so close to the direction our own culture seems to be taking that at times Gibson is more a prophet than an author.
A must read for anyone with a passing interest in science fiction. Or just anyone who's enjoyed The Matrix.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Hugely influential and way ahead of its time 26 Jun 2001
By A Customer
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After reading some 100 pages of this book, I realised how many other books, TV shows and movies it has directly and indirectly influenced. The shock was looking at the inside cover to realise that the book was first published in the mid-1980s. It is so far ahead of its time that it's scary. The first few pages were a little off-putting and I couldn't quite accept Gibson's writing style, but with a bit of perseverence, either his editor tightened things up, or I got used to it. And from that moment on, I enjoyed every page. Just like modern times, there is too much information and it takes real reading to understand and absorb every detail, every new construct and every fictional technology. But it's worth the effort. A class sci-fi book in a genre overly-populated with dirge. It stands up against any genre as a very good book indeed.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Neuromancer invented its own genre. 16 Dec 1999
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Neuromancer is the epitome and the antecedent of all cyberpunk fiction. In fact, it is with this book that Gibson, seemingly quite accidentally, actually coined the term "cyberspace" (not to mention providing the original "matrix"). The characters are vivid and interesting, and the world that they inhabit is just as colourful, in its urbanized, futuristic way. Neuromancer is relatively brief, laudably free of some science fiction writers' tendency to expound verbosely on their philosophy of the future. Even so, Gibson's vision comes out in the writing, perhaps even more effectively. You will finish this book quickly. When you do, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are just as well paced, continue in the same vein without becoming philosophical, and are refreshingly self-contained for science fiction sequels.
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