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Amazon.com (ISBN 0441569587, Mass Market Paperback)Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price.... Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0441569587, Mass Market Paperback)A hard-boiled futuristic novel, NEUROMANCER uses as its stage the boundless range of modern cyberspace. The author's hero, Case, is a cyberspy, the best in the business. But he plays his games close to the edge and double-crosses the wrong people.Banished from cyberspace and restricted to life in the physical world, Case hits the skids. But his luck turns when he gets another chance. To take it may cost him his life. William Gibson is a guru of science fiction in the computer age, and NEUROMANCER is his "cyberpunk" masterpiece. "Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed and chilling." (The New York Times) Amazon.com Download Description (ISBN 0441569587, Mass Market Paperback)"The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . . Case had been 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. Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potent visions of the future. "Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0441569595, Mass Market Paperback)Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in earth's computer matrix. Then he doublecrossed the wrong people...Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards. Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0441012035, Hardcover)SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION --THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADES 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. 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. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson's gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future. Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0441007465, Paperback)One of the most important and influential novels of our time.Neuromancer is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future, it is 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. Now, for the first time, Ace Books is proud to present this groundbreaking literary achievement in a new trade paperback edition. Winner of science fiction's 'Triple Crown'--the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. Includes the special afterword Gibson wrote for the 10th anniversary hardcover edition published by Ace "A mind-bender of a read." --The Village Voice "Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications." --New York Times "Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy and decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance." --Washington Post "It made me want to live in its world." --San Francisco Chronicle "A revolutionary novel." --Publishers Weekly "Gibson is tapped straight into our collective cultural mainline and shows no sign of stopping." --Spin "Gibson has revitalized science fiction as no other single force in a generation." --Rolling Stone "Epic in scale." --Wall Street Journal "The quintessence of cyberpunk." --Washington Post Book World (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:58:10 -0500) |
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