Not worth the hype, but worth the read.

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	• Neuromancer (Ace Science Fiction) William Gibson Ace Trade, 2000 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 451 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lives up to the hype

Okay, now I understand what all the fuss is about. Gibson creates a vivd and engrossing world, entirely believable despite being so fantastic, and does so with a daring, sharp prose style that makes no apologies for bowling forward and leaving slow readers behind. He never holds you by the hand. Never indulges in overt descriptions and filling in all the blanks. It's just quick, cutting, laced with attitude, and on the edge of danger. This was fantastic stuff. Astonishing that this was his first novel. Thankfully I have another Gibson or two on my shelf; I'll certainly be reading them in the near future.

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Still Good After All These Years

I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the time, microcomputer's barely existed and ARPANET hadn't even started the move away from the Defense/Academic community to become the internet. It's truly amazing that such a book is still worthwhile today. It does have some minor problems with the characters and pacing, but those are insignificant compared to its historical significance. I rate it at a Very Good four stars out of five.

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Not worth the hype, but worth the read.

While I did enjoy the book, it wasn't anywhere the world's greatest novel that many seem to say it is. The plot was shallow, the characters were decent but also a little shallow. The world was an ok futuristic setting, defiantly fits as a cyberpunk genre.

The book is a little confusing, many of the aspects are never really explained. And the ending was a build to something great and then just fizzled out. But even with that being said I defiantly would recommend reading it because it's a ok novel.

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One of the most important and influential novels of our time.

Neuromancer is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future, it is a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.

Now, for the first time, Ace Books is proud to present this groundbreaking literary achievement in a new trade paperback edition.

Winner of science fiction's 'Triple Crown'--the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards.
Includes the special afterword Gibson wrote for the 10th anniversary hardcover edition published by Ace

"A mind-bender of a read." --The Village Voice

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

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

"It made me want to live in its world." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A revolutionary novel." --Publishers Weekly

"Gibson is tapped straight into our collective cultural mainline and shows no sign of stopping." --Spin

"Gibson has revitalized science fiction as no other single force in a generation." --Rolling Stone

"Epic in scale." --Wall Street Journal

"The quintessence of cyberpunk." --Washington Post Book World

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