Neuromancer

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Summary: Thrilling!!
Review: Neuromancer is a very brutal and dark story in an almost-near future of high-tech and stuff. It is not a space opera, but more of a thriller with lots of concrete and computers, shadows and secret societys. Great and exciting plot, which keeps you hooked on for hours. You've probably already heard the word Cyberspace. Read all three of them IN ORDER (Count Zero and Mona Lisa overdrive). They stick together and ends up in a breath taking statement

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Summary: THE Definitive novel of CyberPunks and Cyber Culture!
Review: When i read this book after a few years of meaning to and just putting it off -- I smacked myself for waiting. This book is so vivid that it is scary -- the picture it paints of our future, and of the Internet and Artificial Intelligence is unbelievable. You will love this book -- it's unique and original ideas will have you enthralled -- and its solid plot will leave you begging for more. It is a book you would be a fool to miss -- Recommended for any sci-fi fan and Netizen... An overall MUST READ! (RTFB!

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Summary: Cyber Cowboys
Review: Just as Easy Rider defined the generation of the 1960's, Gibson's science fiction novel may very well define the 1990's era. Though at times a little too dark and murky for its own good, nontheless Gibson spins a tale that "jacks in" to the collective unconciousness of the computer generation. A solid science fiction novel that combines the best of the genre with new issues relative to the devleopment of world wide networking. A must read for all students of the web

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Summary: William Gibson is God
Review: Neuromancer is unquestionably the most influential science fiction book since William Burroughs "The Naked Lunch". Gibson has combined mystery, romance, and a sense of philosophy to give us the most innovative work of art in any world

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Summary: Bored? Tired? Jaded? Read Neromancer and live again
Review: Neuromancer is the culmination of free market capitalism and unlimited technological advances. The world has shifted from customer service to big business and corporations. Urban sprawl is a reality. Sound enticing? In this book, there are some of the most vibrant and endearing characters for all of the wrong reasons. If you want a book that will change forever the way you view the world, READ IT TWICE. You can never again look at emerging technology again without yearning for the cowboy decks and razorgirls that Gibson describes. Some books change your life. This one changed the future.

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Summary: I liked COUNT ZERO better.
Review: The "feel" of Gibson's future seems betrayed by every effort to "colorize" or illustrate or comment on or explicate it. It is sui generis. The haunting imagery refuses to leave you.

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Summary: Neuromancer left me gasping for more.
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This book sits you down in an intricately constructed world of the future, almost scary, yet instantly familiar from fantasies and nightmares.

Just enough detail is provided to make what is left to the imagination deliciously fun to create.

The main characters show great depth, but you are left wanting to know some of the people that Gibson treats as plot devices a little better - sometimes.

This book is one of those best read all at once, because as soon as you put it down, you experience the letdown caused by the contrast between your dull, constricting life, as compared to the runaway adrenaline felt in Gibson's future- world.

Definitely recommended reading for anyone who calls themselves a sci-fi fan.

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Summary: The book that all other Cyberfiction has to live up to.
Review: Neuromancer set the stage for the most intense of all Science fiction writing, the Cyberfiction genre. This book can be considered the grand-father of "cyber space" as this is where the phrase was coined. William Gibson has shown us a not to distant future that is both exciting and terrifyingly dangerous at the same time. With what can be perceived by any intelligent human, the future that Mr. Gibson has brought to us is a future that can be all to real. This book should be the starting point of anyone that wants to jump into the Cyberfiction genre with both feet!

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Summary: The "most accurate" version of our future I've found.
Review: Readers of science fiction will find this highly readable, but *everyone* should try it on in order to share his version of our collective future. I think he's got it nailed. Yeah, the ending is a little weak and grows tiresome -- but endings are intellectual contrivances, works of cultural expectation and editorial demand; STORIES, now, stories are of the gods, and this is a great one.

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Summary: A fictional map of the future currently being created.
Review: Gibson's "Neromancer" takes the reader and the protagonist on a harrowing journey through true cyberspace. This book has had an obvious influence on companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Netscape. Let's hope that all of Gibson's visions do not become reality. Also, if you like this one, check out Marge Piercy's "He, She and It," another cyberspace - cyborg adventure that questions corporate business ethics.