Neuromancer is a novel from 1984 written by the American writer William Gibson. The book is known as the first novel from the so-calledcyberpunk-genre, and won the Nebula Award, the Philip k. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.
The book was Gibson's debut novel, and the first part of the Sprawl trilogy.
Story[]
A computer hacker hit impoverished Henry Dorsett Case is hired by a mysterious employer Armitage to perform the ultimate hack. Along with Molly, with whom he had a relationship begins, he must first the "Dixie Flatline" steal, a ROMmodule in which consciousness is preserved by McCoy Pauley, one of Cases mentors. This module is located in the headquarters of the conglomerate Sense/Net. After this successful Case and Molly to come know that Armitage as Colonel Willis Corto went through life used to be and was a member of a military command. They also come on the trail of a powerful central of artificial intelligence named Wintermute, owned by the Tessier-Ashpool family, in a space station.
Case is sent to the space station to penetrate with a Chinese Wintermute computer virus. He is captured, but the security system, whereby Case Wintermute manipulates can escape. He manages to take over, Wintermute and Wintermute may merge with a similar system Neuromancer, after which it goes in search of other artificial intelligence in the universe.
Themes[Edit][]
Gibson explores topics like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic technology, and the domination by multinationals, long before these ideas in popular culture ascendant. The concept of cyberspace comes here for the first time for; Gibson took the word out to "a hallucination that is experienced daily by millions" to describe. He got the idea after seeing "the same plane flight teenagers who played video games". In the book is also referred to as "the matrix" to cyberspace, possibly an inspiration for the film The Matrix. However, the concept of matrix was used in an episode of Doctor Who in 1976.