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- From: syderange@aol.com (Syderange)
- Subject: Book Review - Neuromancer
- Date: 11 Apr 1995 20:45:38 -0400
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- Neuromancer
- by
- William Gibson
- Ace Edition 1984
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- Every 'zine you pick up, from Playboy to Boy's Life, is talking about
- cybersomething. Cyberspace to cybersex, don't believe the hype. Before
- there ever was a virtual bandwagon, there was the word and the word came
- >from William Gibson in the form of his first novel, Neuromancer.
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- Therein, Gibson lays out the story of Case, a nerve-burned console cowboy,
- and Molly, a 21st Century riot grrrl with a jacked nervous system and the
- technoware to make it hurt, as they set out on an epic quest full of dead
- ends and double burns. Chasing through the labyrinthian near future city
- called The Sprawl, a nightmare created from the entropic furnace of super
- violence, wild fire technology and inept government, Case and Molly
- search for the mysterious center to an old world empire. Exploring the
- edge where rampant urban decay and technology meet the gutter, with an
- outlook as bleak as any Joy Division song, Gibson creates a world of
- drugs, sex and rock and roll for the next millennium.
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- Corporate America has jumped into cyberspace hip deep, attempting to turn
- Gibson's vision of tech hell into a non-fiction tome. Just Say No. Take
- a break from the corporate pimping of technology with a novel that howls,
- shrieks, thunders and barks at the moon.
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