Neuromancer

 

Neuromancer. "Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer."

William Gibson's debut novel is one of the most important pieces of cyberpunk from the last century, and only now did I discover it and had I the time to read it's wild narrative.

Plenty of work after 1984 has been inspired by it since then, including The Matrix film trilogy and Johhny Mnemonic. Widely credited as pioneering the science function sub-genre known as cyberpunk, this is a must read for fellow fans.

It follows Case, a drug addict and cyberspace hacker who enters a mission with a formed up crew where a cure towards him is promised while his services are needed internationally. While forming a relationship with Molly who is cybernetic-ally enhanced, they encounter all kinds of characters.

These include drug dealers, military men, other hackers and eventually AI's with their own ambiguous personalities. Throughout the story being told, I noticed that most of the specific words, slang and terminology to be found are definitely not explained throughout.

This is intended apparently by the author in order sacrifice literal meaning towards offering you a more foreign like ride, as if you were a tourist, and perhaps that also reflects back all of the international objects being referenced in here.

Definitely a character driven story too, the way it describes the settings and their environments got my brain wildly yet relatively searching and finding pictures inside, allowing it to be a very good thrilling sci-fi adventure to unfold.

Neuromancer is unlike anything else I have read or seen, even in it's own genre, and some believe that Gibson even predicted or described in here what is now globally known as the Internet, but then in the form of cyberspace and the matrix. It conveys plenty, and it sparks the imagination.

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

Rating: ****

 
I wish all of you a mighty 2020.