Neuromancer

ISBN-13: 9780441569595 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 271 str.

William Gibson

Opis

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece--a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future.

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...

Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future--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.

Recenzje

Praise for Neuromancer

Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications. The New York Times
 
Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance. The Washington Post
 
Science fiction of exceptional texture and vision...Gibson opens up a new genre, with a finely crafted grittiness. San Francisco Chronicle
 
Epic in scale...shimmers like chrome in a desert sun. The Wall Street Journal
 
A revolutionary novel. Publishers Weekly
 
In with the ruthless violence, the hyperreality, the betrayal and death, is an unquenchable love of language. Gibson has that in common with Le Guin and with J. G. Ballard. Neuromancer sings to us as a collage of voices, a mixed chorus, some trustworthy and others malicious, some piped through masks. James Gleick
 
Streetwise SF... one of the most unusual and involving narratives to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon. London Times
 
Unforgettable...the richness of Gibson s world is incredible. Chicago Sun-Times
 

O autorze

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.