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Neuromancer

William Gibson

Ages 14–18

Readers rate it 3.8 (2.3K on Hardcover)

271 pages · Released 1986

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LGBTQ+ themes

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Neuromancer is a landmark cyberpunk novel with mature themes and complex prose that demands sophisticated reading skills. While not graphically violent, it contains drug use, criminal activity, morally ambiguous characters, and existential dread throughout. This is essential science fiction for older teens interested in technology and philosophy, but not appropriate for younger middle-grade readers despite the range of reading levels listed.

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The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. 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,... The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. 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. 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. 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.

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  • Information superhighway
  • Computer hackers
  • Conspiracies
  • Open Library Staff Picks
  • Ciencia-ficción
  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Business intelligence
  • Nervous system
  • Wounds and injuries
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
  • Hackers

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ISBN 9780441569595 · Berkley Publishing Group

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