Ground zero for cyberpunk culture, or what we now call "daily life". I read this for the first time in high school circa 1998, and it had a profound impact on me. This is probably my fifth time reading it, and it's stunning how much closer civilization has grown to resemble Neuromancer's hyper-acc...
My first encounter with this book was not through a friend, or even seeing it on a bookshelf, but rather through the roleplaying game While Shadowrun did use this particular book as a source (and now having read this book it is surprising the number of ideas that were borrowed), Shadowrun doe...
I was blown away, not just by the intricacy and texture of Gibson's universe, but the scarily prescient observations. This was written in 1983, for heaven's sake! We didn't have an Internet or cyberspace or hackers or viruses back then. What were you going to hack- a Commodore 64? The Matrix franchi...
Powerful book that altered the face of science fiction writing - the book credited with bringing "cyberpunk" fully into the light. Though I might actually prefer Walter Jon Williams' [b:Hardwired|304761|Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)|Walter Jon Williams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173564520s/304761...
I remember reading a really brilliant feminist critique of this book, but I've just looked for it and read several bunches of soggy, shallow 'liberal feminist' analysis arguing, for example, that Linda's imitation of masculine traits to make herself acceptable to Case (the male protagonist) is Gibso...
I've read this is a landmark book in science fiction, the first "cyberpunk" novel that coined the word cyberspace. Reading this you can see how influential it was--it's impossible to believe those that created the film The Matrix, for instance, didn't read this book. Given this was written in 1984, ...
Some of the things science fiction writers tend to do irritate me. They make up words, they throw gee-whiz laser guns in when they don't add to the story, and they're more prone to eye-rolling love stories than genre-less fiction. And here's Neuromancer totally doing every one of those things, but f...
Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my HUGO WINNERS list.This is the reading list that follows th...
Yeah. This is still a great book. I first read this in the late 80's and it was as new and fresh as anything I had ever read. SF set a couple years in the future and so close you could feel it coming. The book has aged since then. It's not as new or fresh or inevitable as it seemed 20 some odd years...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
