Neuromancer

Gibson, William

ISBN 10: 057503470X / ISBN 13: 9780575034709

Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1984

About this Item

First British edition, first printing; first hardcover edition. Signed by William Gibson on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, with light wear to spine ends. In a Near Fine dust jacket with slight sunning to spine, light spidering to surface laminate, and several scratches with light corresponding indentations to the boards there as well. Gibson's first novel, winner of the Nebula, Hugo and Philip K. Dick Award, and has been credited with starting the Cyberpunk genre. Seller Inventory # 140943450

Bibliographic Details

Title: Neuromancer

Publisher: Victor Gollancz, London

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick AwardsCase was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

Review:

Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....