Neuromancer
Published in 1984, Neuromancer was author William Gibson's first novel. It won the 1984 Nebula award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and Hugo Award the following year. The novel is considered to be the first proper cyberpunk novel.Warning: Plot details follow.
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Set in a dystopic, plausible, all-too-near-future, this book explored ideas such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, multinational corporations dominating the world at the expense of the nation-state, and cyberspace (a computer network called the Matrix) long before these ideas were fashionable in popular culture. Gibson also explored the dehumanizing effects of a world dominated by ubiquitous and cheap technology, writing of a future where violence and the free market are the only things upon which one may rely.
Molly: A 'Razorgirl' who is recruited along with Case by Armitage. She has extensive body modifications. most notably 4 cm blades under her fingernails which can used like Wolverine's claws, a souped up reflex system and implanted lenses covering her eyesockets whith added optical enhancements.
Peter Riviera: A thief who can project images using his implants.
Armitage: He is (apparently) the main patron of the crew. Formerly Colonel Corto, who took part in the Screaming Fist operation. He was heavily injured both physically and psychologically, and the "Armitage" personality was constructed as part of experimental "computer-mediated psychotherapy" by Wintermute, the artificial intelligence that is actually controlling the mission. As the novel progresses, "Armitage"'s personality slowly disintegrates.
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Case: the anti-hero, a drug addict and cyberspace hacker whose nervous system was burnt out by some of his business partners who used a Russian mycotoxin after he ripped them off. When Armitage offers to help him he jumps at the offer. Reference
William Gibson, Neuromancer, published by Ace Books, ISBN 0441569595See also
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