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Neuromancer
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You want lean, noir prose about a jaded console cowboy. You crave seminal cyberpunk: neon cities, hackers vs megacorps.
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You prefer explicit, modern technical realism about hacking. You need warm resolutions or slow-burn, intimacy-focused character arcs.
Summary
Case, a burned-out console cowboy, is pulled into a high-stakes job that forces him back into cyberspace and into a lethal corporate conspiracy; Gibson fuses noir grit with hallucinatory tech speculation in a taut, fast-moving thriller.
Edition on file: 2017 • Orion Publishing Group, Limited • 352 pages • ISBN 9781473217379.
Why this book now
Neuromancer remains a vivid touchstone for conversations about AI, surveillance and corporate power shaping our wired present and near future.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
At about 350 pages, the novel moves quickly — plan for a few focused sessions to keep the plot and shifting set-pieces coherent.
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Already drawing enough interest on UPB to separate it from forgotten shelf filler.
What stands out here
This Orion edition preserves Gibson's lean, kinetic prose and the book's original cyberpunk atmosphere, ideal for readers wanting the classic text intact.
Best way to approach it
Read for momentum: let the dense images and clipped dialogue build the world rather than pausing for every technical detail; reread passages for resonant lines afterward.
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