![]() ![]() Violent, visceral and visionary (there’s no other word for it), Neuromancer proved, not for the first or last time, that science fiction is more than a mass-market paperback genre, it’s a crucial tool by which an age shaped by and obsessed with technology can understand itself. When one such hacker, Case, gets banned from this “cyberspace” - Gibson was among the first to use the word - he’ll do anything to get back in, including embarking on a near-suicidal cyber-assault on an all but unhackable artificial intelligence. The sci-fi, community, however, was acutely aware of the novels importance when it came out: Neuromancer ran the table on sci-fis big three awards in 1984, winning the Hugo Award, the Philip K. ![]() ![]() ![]() He combined a shattered, neon-chased, postmodern cityscape - its inhabitants rendered demi-human by designer drugs, tattoos and rampant surgical body modifications - with his vision of a three-dimensional virtual landscape created by networked computers, through which bad-ass bandit hackers roam like high plains drifters. 4 hours ago &0183 &32 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson (1984) Gibson is credited with coining the word cyberspace in his short story 'Burning Chrome.' He defines it as 'widespread, interconnected digital technology. There is no way to overstate how radical Gibson’s first and best novel was when it first appeared. ![]()
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