Neuromancer: Paperback

Case is a burned-out console cowboy in Chiba City when an employer offers to repair his nervous system in exchange for one more run into cyberspace. William Gibson's first novel gave the genre much of its vocabulary, from the matrix itself to the street-level view of corporations, implants and back-alley clinics. The heist that drives the plot brings together a razor-fitted mercenary, a stolen personality construct and an artificial intelligence with its own reasons for wanting the job finished. Printed here as a 336-page Penguin USA paperback, it remains the standard entry point to cyberpunk fiction. Things to expect: • The novel that established cyberpunk's vocabulary • 336-page Penguin USA paperback edition • Heist structure moving from Chiba City to orbit • Dense, image-driven prose that rewards close reading For science fiction readers, genre students and anyone tracing the roots of digital culture, available at Boipoka.