Neuromanceris the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. It is a classic science fiction that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future. WithNeuromancer, William Gibson introdu...
Neuromancer, by William Gibson Henry Dorsett Case is a wasted computer hacker due to his damaged nervous system that he got as punishment for stealing data from his employer. Once a talented computer hacker, Henry now lives in a dystopian underworld society in Japan heavily dominated by AI, vir...
40. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984) Buy on Amazon Add to library Perhaps the definitive piece of cyberpunk fiction, William Gibson’s Neuromancer is one of the most influential titles of the 80s — and one of the best science fiction books of all time. Case, a washed-up hacker, ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Robots:Stories that center on the proliferation of AI and robot technology, often at the expense of human characters or civilization. For example, Isaac Azimov’sI, Robot, William Gibson’sNeuromancer, and Martha Wells’s “Murderbot Diaries” ...
The Shockwave Rider(John Brunner, 1975) The original cyberpunk novel, predating Gibson’Neuromancerby nine years (and even the word “cyberpunk” by five.) Admittedly, it doesn’t feature a neon-lit virtual realitycyberspace, but itdoeshave a hacker who unleashes a little doozey on the glob...
and enjoyed a popular heyday through the ’80s and early ’90s. Many—most—stories were written before much of the internet and everything that spun out of that even existed (things like wifi, webpages, smartphones, social media, and so on). William Gibson wroteNeuromancerwithout ever havi...
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”— Neuromancer by William Gibson 💡Why it works: Gibson’s opening line subverts the usual picturesque imagery of the sky — instead presenting a stark mechanical description that immerses readers in his dystopia...
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you’re published and you both have books coming out this year (more later), on top of all this, you put your hands up to be co-chairs of Conflux 9. Tell me honestly, when you came home from that meeting and told your significant others that you’d volunteered to run the Nat Con...