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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.
Review: 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.
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Summary: A wonderful read, whether or not you're into computers.
Review: I read this book in 1990. I was browsing a book store with my boyfriend, who picked up the book and exclaimed ``Wow, listen to this!'' upon reading the first sentence. ("The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.") He bought the book, loan it to me the next week and I never returned it. Gibson's lyric writing, his intricate plotting, his discomfort with corporate omnipresense are all worth savoring...you'll read the novel once for story, then again (and again) for text and texture. He's also a master at capturing the way a city feels, how it crowds you and isolates you at the same time. (Manhattanites will definitely get it.) In any event, I'm not at all involved in computers or high technology of any kind. Gibson may be the father of cyberpunk and the coiner of the word "cyberspace," but you don't need to know or care what that means to enjoy his books, particularly Neuromancer.
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Summary: Vast, jacked-in fantasy
Review: It is my understanding that Gibson coined the term "cyberspace"-and very beautifully. When I dream of cyberspace realities, I can not help but invoke fragments of William Gibson's vast, jacked-in hallucination-what you might call "virtual reality". There was one more component to William Gibson's cyberspace-that of the spiritual-and these segments are quite beautiful. I'm giving this book 4 "Amazon" stars because I think Gibson's "Count Zero" is even better--especially the references surrounding the artist Joseph Cornell. One can't nitpick a classic such as this--too much--although some aspects of the adolescent "cyberpunk" content are difficult to reconcile in maturity--regardless, I can acknowledge the need for these significant concepts to be made available via an accessible pubescent perspective. This book left me craving more Gibson "cyberpunk"--and there's not much to be found. I've read Gibon's short stories--not bad. I couldn't get into "The Difference Engine" or "All Tomorrow's Parties"... I'm not feeling "Pattern Recognition" in the store either, but his blog has piqued my curiousity. I want Gibson to bring the world to its knees, in tears. Pretty please? To discuss the book--if it's allowed by Amazon, hit me up on AIM/Yahoo "yesiliveinaustin"
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