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Pages: 288, Paperback, Ace Trade

Pages: 384, Edition: 20th anniversary, Hardcover, Ace Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780441012039. ISBN10: 0441012035. by William Gibson. Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.. Edition: 04

  In the postmodern world of William Gibson's Neuromancer, nature is dead, and the world is run by the logic of the corporate machine. Confronted by a reality that is stark, barren, and metallic, and the hopelessness that this reality engenders, the postmodern protagonist, like Case, often immerses himself or herself in an alternate form of reality that is offered in the form of addiction (to virtual reality or drugs, for example), addictions that are made possible by the same society that...

Compares the views of the two authors on how the media and technology will affect society in the near future. Argues that both have a pessimistic view on the subject, and compares their attitudes with the attitudes of other authors. 11 pages, 34 footnotes, 8 bibliographic sources. $77

Das Buch, mit dem William Gibson die Welt verändert hat Mit dieser Romantrilogie schuf William Gibson, der bedeutendste Science-Fiction-Autor unserer Zeit, einen modernen Mythos: den »Cyberspace«. Es ist die rasante Welt hinter dem Bildschirm, eine künstlich erzeugte Realität, in der alles möglich scheint. Gibson inspirierte damit Wissenschaftler und Philosophen, Computerhersteller und Künstler gleichermaßen – und half so, die Welt zu schaffen, in der wir heute leben. Für Bücher wie dieses wurde...

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a...

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First thus- 10th anniversary edition. First Ace hardcover edition of Gibson's highly influential first novel, which was originally published as a paperback original, winner of the 1984 Nebula, 1985 Hugo, and 1985 Philip K. Dick awards. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a new afterword by the author. 278 pp. Ex-library but with relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in a fine dj. .ISBN # 0-441-000681

Description Author Bios William Gibson is the New York Times bestselling author of Virtual Light, as well as Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Idoru. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.In this variation on the Faust story, a computer expert sells his soul for money.Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial...

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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned a light on. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. Neuromancer didn’t just explode onto the science fiction scene. It permeated into our consciousness, our culture, our science, and our technology. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer showed us what we were capable of creating and what we were capable of destroying—and illuminated the dark corners of the path we were...

Their goal was to achieve the same kind of modeling & painting quality as Non Articulated PVC statues possess, while keeping playful nature of traditional action figures, basically, to offers the benefit of PVC figure and Action figure in one. Their concept became a reality and now they are releasing this line of Posable Dislpay Figures (rather than action figure in larger scale) as this new "NEUROMANCER action figure series.

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a...

When William Gibson's futuristic novel Neuromancer  was first published, it seemed farfetched that technology could reach the level of sophistication he described. Science fiction movies have since repeated and expanded upon this theme, portraying corporate anxieties and paranoid fears of people to be controlled by aliens, man-made machines and artificial intelligence. Neuromancer takes us into the subculture of cyberpunk, a dystopia of an amoral society ruled by abstract powers. Gibson creates a...