It’s only afterward that he finds out that there’s a catch. Of course he dives in, wanting nothing more than to feel the thrill of the matrix flowing through him again. That is, until someone comes calling with the chops to do just that. But, after stealing from one of his temporary employers, his nervous system was vengefully damaged by a toxin that left him never able to jack into the matrix again. He used to be a great computer hacker, surfing through the virtual reality of the matrix. Henry Case is a hustler in the rough underworld of Chiba City.

NEUROMANCER is great science fiction and should be on every genre reader's list As “dead channels” no longer show the mess of shades of gray I grew up calling static.īrilliantly good cyberpunk from an era when cyberpunk was all but undefined. This line also, of course, dates the novel a little. “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” The opening line is one that is, for a child of my generation, easy to understand: NEUROMANCER ( Amazon) was written by William Gibson and published back in 1984, which is, incidentally, the title of another science fiction novel. I remember doing that for the main sequence of the DragonLance books by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman ( Amazon), which I absolutely loved as a kid. I think it says something important about that story. You know, it’s really nice to be able to read a book for a second time (especially after a long while has passed) and find out that you enjoyed the story just as well that time around. It had been long enough since I’d first read it that I decided to ingest it again. While putting together our Best Science Fiction Books page ( EBR Archive) I realized that we didn’t have a review up for this book, and decided that I had better put one together.

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