Neuromancer - William Gibson Reviews

Neuromancer is more than twenty years old now, a fact that's a bit astonishing. Written by William Gibson, the blurb claims that the novel 'invented' cyberspace and virtual reality. Bold claims indeed (and perhaps not entirely justified in the case of VR), but there's no denying the fundamental impact Neuromancer had on the late twentieth century ...  Read the complete review

I Have bookcase upon bookcase of books, some new, but mostly old.. Some are Good, Some are Bad, and one in particular is the book that created an entire new Genre in Science Fiction.. The Genre now known as Cyberpunk, where many of todays best selling movies drawn much of their inspiration, it was after watching Minority Report and Re-watching ...  Read the complete review

Let me take you back in time – to 1983. Commodore has just wowed the computer gaming world with the release of its Commodore 64 computer, complete with a tape deck that will have you playing classics such as “Pong” and “Space Invaders” after, oh, about quarter of an hour of loading time. The arcades are buzzing with ...  Read the complete review

I read Neuromancer about 5 years ago and while I understand that it is credited with the birth of the cyberpunk genre (which I doubt since Dick’s Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep was earlier) I can’t help but feel that this is a reasonable story poorly written. As far as I can remember this is Gibson’s first book and ...  Read the complete review

I bought the book originally for a long train journey, some years ago now. It was from one of those station bookshops and was from a limited choice. I figured the book would keep me occupied for the journey and it certainly did. So much so that I had to buy the rest of the series later in the week. I was utterly hooked from the first ...  Read the complete review

Inspiration for Cyberspace and the cyberpunk movement, William Gibson's first novel was a revelation. Among the group of writers in the early 1980s, he presented a new kind of future. The world he shows has high technology, but it also has the grime, danger and decay of urban life. The advances of technology are taken by the rich and powerful, ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review