Neuromancer

I read it in nearly one sitting, during a teenage Christmas Day. Still remember how it felt like electric running through my bones.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
== AQ-226: neuromancer; psychofreak; art by women; ars theurgia; chemognosis; ==
With 1984's Neuromancer, William Gibson may not have invented cyberpunk, but he certainly crystallized it. The novel exemplifies the tradition's mandate to bring together "high tech and low life," or, in the words of Gibson himself, to explore what "any given science-fiction favorite would look like if we could crank up the resolution."
It may have its direct predecessors, but Gibson's tale of hackers, street samurai, conspiracists, and shadowy artificial intelligences against virtual reality, dystopian urban Japan, and a variety of other international and technological backdrops remains not just archetypal but, unusually for older technology-oriented fiction, exciting.
Various audio-renditions of «Neuromancer» are available, one among them read by William Gibson himself, another as a shortened, paraphrased, adapted, radio-play by BBC.
Early in his career Gibson did an abridged reading of Neuromancer, his first novel and the work that made him famous. It was in this novel that Gibson coined the term cyberspace. This reading was only published on audio-tape and is now out of print.
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