Lives up to the hype | Neuromancer

Still Good After All These Years | Neuromancer | William Gibson

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	• Neuromancer William Gibson Ace Hardcover, 2004 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 451 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story...

This is the best of Gibson's work. It holds up after several readings and becomes richer and more mind-expanding each time you enter its world of the cyberpunk future that we're living in. Somehow, later work by Gibson doesn't quite measure up to the brilliance of "Neuromancer," at least for me. Hard as I try, I can't get into the characters or even the language of Gibson's later works. I keep wanting to be jacked into the matrix of "Neuromancer," back where I think I belong, back where the world as I know exists. If Gibson had simply continued with the characters from this novel, added more dimensions to the world he created, if he had done what Lawrence Durrell did in the "Alexandria Quartet" only from the point of view cyberspace, I think we'd all be happier. Maybe, maybe not.

-Tom Maremaa, Author of the Forthcoming Novel "Metal Heads" from Kunati Books in Spring 2009

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Lives up to the hype

Okay, now I understand what all the fuss is about. Gibson creates a vivd and engrossing world, entirely believable despite being so fantastic, and does so with a daring, sharp prose style that makes no apologies for bowling forward and leaving slow readers behind. He never holds you by the hand. Never indulges in overt descriptions and filling in all the blanks. It's just quick, cutting, laced with attitude, and on the edge of danger. This was fantastic stuff. Astonishing that this was his first novel. Thankfully I have another Gibson or two on my shelf; I'll certainly be reading them in the near future.

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Still Good After All These Years

I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the time, microcomputer's barely existed and ARPANET hadn't even started the move away from the Defense/Academic community to become the internet. It's truly amazing that such a book is still worthwhile today. It does have some minor problems with the characters and pacing, but those are insignificant compared to its historical significance. I rate it at a Very Good four stars out of five.

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SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION --
THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADES

Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene--it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.

Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson's gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.

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