Neuromancer
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0058R83CW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become real. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. And yet, William Gibson's gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.
Alf R. Bergesen said The Future is Now. Neuromancer is quite simply the greatest, most prescient near-future sci-fi novel ever written. Although Gibson's world is dark and gritty and, in many ways, rather dystopian, I want to live there, or at least visit often. The world-building in Neuromancer is seamlessly organic. There isn't any long-winded exposition regarding how things in the author's world are and how they got that way. They just are, there on the page, and it feels real. The futuristic setting is woven into the plot so tightly that it's hard. Incredible imagination, incredible writing. Smiling Hotei This book popularized a new genre - cyberpunk. Although Gibson may not have been the first to explore the cyberspace world (e.g., Brunner, Vinge, and others) he entered with a splash, or perhaps a tsunami. What is most ironic is that Gibson wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter, not being a computer user.The opening line of Necromancer is often cited as an example of creative writing. Rather than opening with "It was a dark and stormy night" Gibson introduces us to his world with, "The sky above the port was the col. I loved Neuromancer when I first read it I loved Neuromancer when I first read it, years ago. I remember I also loved Count Zero, and Gibson had been an avatar ever since. But now it is what you might call a "science fiction classic", whatever that might mean to you, and while the sci-fi concepts remain out front of our current reality, the hardware lags way behind. I'd say go ahead and buy it: the book deserves a read. But you probably won't be totally blown away by it as I was all those years ago. Simply put, no cyber-reality story from wayback can s