About the Author

William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

Reviews

Praise for Neuromancer

“Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications.”—The New York Times
 
“Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance.”—The Washington Post
 
“Science fiction of exceptional texture and vision...Gibson opens up a new genre, with a finely crafted grittiness.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Epic in scale...shimmers like chrome in a desert sun.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“A revolutionary novel.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“In with the ruthless violence, the hyperreality, the betrayal and death, is an unquenchable love of language. Gibson has that in common with Le Guin and with J. G. Ballard. Neuromancer sings to us as a collage of voices, a mixed chorus, some trustworthy and others malicious, some piped through masks.”—James Gleick
 
“Streetwise SF... one of the most unusual and involving narratives to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon.”—London Times
 
“Unforgettable...the richness of Gibson’s world is incredible.”—Chicago Sun-Times
 

Neuromancer is a fitting commemoration of the tenth anniversary of publication of Gibson's Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel. The text is abridged, read by the author, and enhanced with music, sound effects, and other audio engineering. The plot contains sex, drugs, black market body parts, virtual reality, electronic relationships, pleasure palaces, murder, mayhem, cloned assassins, and intrigue in cyberspace, with nary a virtual nice guy in the mix. Wow! There's just enough time to take a deep breath between cassettes, as the listener is bombarded with strong language, tumultuous violence, and compelling imagery. Terrific stuff. Gibson's horrifying vision of our terrible headlong rush to nowhere is a must for science fiction and adult fiction collections.-Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., Ohio

Praise for Neuromancer

"Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications."-The New York Times

"Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance."-The Washington Post

"Science fiction of exceptional texture and vision...Gibson opens up a new genre, with a finely crafted grittiness."-San Francisco Chronicle

"Epic in scale...shimmers like chrome in a desert sun."-The Wall Street Journal

"A revolutionary novel."-Publishers Weekly

"In with the ruthless violence, the hyperreality, the betrayal and death, is an unquenchable love of language. Gibson has that in common with Le Guin and with J. G. Ballard. Neuromancer sings to us as a collage of voices, a mixed chorus, some trustworthy and others malicious, some piped through masks."-James Gleick

"Streetwise SF... one of the most unusual and involving narratives to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon."-London Times

"Unforgettable...the richness of Gibson's world is incredible."-Chicago Sun-Times