Neuromancer (Neuromancer - William Gibson)

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Product:	Neuromancer - William Gibson
Date:	01/07/00 (152 review reads)
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Advantages: Decent book that started off a genre

Disadvantages: I'm a CP vet, and even I was confused in places

This book is a piece of history. It was the first book in the Cyberpunk genre, and it really set the groundrules for all of the CP books that follwed - quite an amazing achievement really.
It follows the main charcter (who's a two-bit programmer and hacker for hire) who gets hired by some dodgy types to do a job for them. Without giving anything away, he ends up teamed with a very dangerous female fighter (who's been cybernetically enhanced) on a space station, via a bit of detective work and a couple of fights, while on the trail of two AIs - Wintermute and Neuromancer.
What really amazes me about this book is that it includes lots of material that must have been brand new to the people reading it back in the early eighties. I've read lots of books in the genre anyway, so I take most of what he wrote for granted, but I can't see how anybody back then understodd a word of what he was writing! It was so different and original that it must have blown people away.
These days, it remains a decent book, but the impact of it will be lost on peopel who're used to the setting (like myself). Buy it for it's historical value.

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