Neuromancer
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| - | :[Ocean of Sound's] parallels aren't music books at all, but rather [[Italo Calvino]]'s ''[[Invisible Cities]]'', [[Michel Leiris]]'s ''[[L'Afrique fantôme]]'', [[William Gibson]]'s ''[[Neuromancer]]'' ... David Toop is our Calvino and our Leiris, our Gibson. ''[[Ocean of Sound]]'' is as alien as the [[20th century]], as utterly Now as the [[21st century|21st]]. An [[essential]] [[mix]]. --[[The Wire]]. | + | '''''Neuromancer''''' is a [[1984]] novel by [[William Gibson]], notable for being the most famous early [[cyberpunk]] novel and winner of the so-called science-fiction "[[triple crown]]". It was Gibson's first novel and the first of the [[Sprawl trilogy]]. The title seems to be a play on words based on its close resemblance to [[Necromancer]], a person who receives divinations from disembodied spirits. |
| - | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | + | ''Neuromancer'' tells the story of Case, an out-of-work computer hacker hired by a mysterious patron to participate in a seemingly impossible crime. The novel examines the concepts of [[artificial intelligence]], [[virtual reality]], [[genetic engineering]], multinational [[Megacorp|corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state]] and [[cyberspace]] long before these ideas became fashionable in [[popular culture]] including the internet itself. |
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| + | Gibson also explores the dehumanizing effects of a world dominated by [[Ubiquitous computing|ubiquitous]] and cheap technology, writing of a future where violence and the [[free market]] are the only things upon which one may rely, and in which the dystopian elements of society are counterbalanced by an energy and diversity that is perversely attractive. | ||
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| + | * ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Snow Crash]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Shadowrun]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'' | ||
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Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the so-called science-fiction "triple crown". It was Gibson's first novel and the first of the Sprawl trilogy. The title seems to be a play on words based on its close resemblance to Necromancer, a person who receives divinations from disembodied spirits.
Neuromancer tells the story of Case, an out-of-work computer hacker hired by a mysterious patron to participate in a seemingly impossible crime. The novel examines the concepts of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, multinational corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state and cyberspace long before these ideas became fashionable in popular culture including the internet itself.
Gibson also explores the dehumanizing effects of a world dominated by ubiquitous and cheap technology, writing of a future where violence and the free market are the only things upon which one may rely, and in which the dystopian elements of society are counterbalanced by an energy and diversity that is perversely attractive.
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