Neuromancer (Unabridged)
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4.3 • 211 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.
Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.
Customer Reviews
A Masterpiece
Gibson had already imagined a prophetic cyberpunk future in his short stories “Burning Chrome” and “Johnny Neumonic”, but it was with _Neuromancer_ (the first book in what would become “The Sprawl Trilogy”) that he realized his visions of the potential repercussions and societal impact of advanced technological integration and the ethical and practical implications of not only XR but also AI technology. Despite a few lapses in foresight (people are still using pay-phones) the book is prescient of technologies unintended consequences, many of which we are struggling with today.
Amazing world building but boring story
The world building was amazing. But the story was just too slow and boring for my taste.
Bad narrator.
Great book, but a horrible monotone reading. They may as well of had an amateur volunteer do the reading to a better result.