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EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the most important and influential novels of our time.*Neuromancer* is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future, it is a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.Now, for the first time, Ace Books is proud to present this groundbreaking literary achievement in a new trade paperback edition. Winner of science fiction's 'Triple Crown'--the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards. Includes the special afterword Gibson wrote for the 10th anniversary hardcover edition published by Ace"A mind-bender of a read." --*The Village Voice*"Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications." --*New York Times*"Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy and decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance." --*Washington Post*"It made me want to live in its world." --*San Francisco Chronicle*"A revolutionary novel." --*Publishers Weekly*"Gibson is tapped straight into our collective cultural mainline and shows no sign of stopping." --*Spin*"Gibson has revitalized science fiction as no other single force in a generation." --*Rolling Stone*"Epic in scale." --*Wall Street Journal*"The quintessence of cyberpunk." --*Washington Post Book World*

SUMMARY:
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....

SUMMARY: 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....