Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780006480419
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0006480411
Label: Voyager
Manufacturer: Voyager
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: November 27, 1995
Publisher: Voyager
Studio: Voyager

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in Earth's computer matrix. Then he double- crossed the wrong people.… Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.




Rating: - I'm sorry but...
I find Gibson pretty much unreadable. I really struggled to finish this book as I just don't care about any of the characters. His style of writing seems much better suited to short stories, and he is an absolute master at invocation of mood and setting. I just find anything longer than a few pages intensely stodgy. Go and get burning chrome instead and tackle it in short chunks...

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Rating: - Vague, rushed, poorly defined.
This book suffers from an incoherent plot, ill-defined characters and a generally ineffective writing style.

I Didn't manage to finish this, though i rarely give up on books. I got to about 2/3rds through and realised i neither knew who these characters were or had any interest in their fate.

The internet has come to define our future as a race. Gibson has the honour of being the first Sci-fi writer to adress this fact extensively. This makes Neuromancer noteworthy but not ... Read More

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Rating: - Visionary but spoiled by an incomprehensible style
I was left with very mixed feelings about this book - Philip K Dick meets Quentin Tarantino. It was written in the early 1980's and is clearly creative, visionary and ahead of its time in the concepts and contents. Personally I think it has aged pretty well, and has proved to be prescient for concepts such as cyberspace and virtual reality. One can easily see how it has created the ideas found in The Matrix series. Why just 2-stars then? Well, unfortunately its echoes are found in the Matrix Reloaded ... Read More

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Rating: - Someone to Wachowski me
I have mixed feelings about neuromancer: one one hand, circa 1982 it was such a staggering imaginative feat, conjuring up a breathtakingly close intellectual equivalent to the internet, coining the term and then strikingly predicting the commercialisation of "cyberspace" and it is also such a valiant stylistic effort, amalgamating Chandler's gumshoe noir with Dick's post-modern dystopian sci-fi that you can't help but be totally swept along.

On the other hand it is such a horror-show of a literary ... Read More

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Rating: - The alpha and omega of cyberpunk
In there beginning the was case, and wintermute saw case and it was good...
The alpha and omega of cyberpunk. This novel was a watershed, any novel of the genre that followed could not helped but be shaped by this superb book. Almost lyrical in style I can remember the moment I first cracked it's spine.

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