Neuromancer
William Gibson · 1984
Gibson wrote "cyberspace" into existence and invented cyberpunk with this 1984 debut. Its vision of a neon-lit, corporatized, networked future has been so thoroughly absorbed into culture that we now live inside it.
The case against
Style is the whole show. Case is a cipher, Molly a leather fantasy, and the heist plot is nearly impossible to follow on a first pass; Gibson's prose is so compressed you often cannot tell what is physically happening in a scene. The future dazzles; the people in it were thin even in 1984, and forty years of imitation has not thickened them.
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