Neuromancer

Neuromancer (ISBN 0006480411) by William Gibson, is considered to be the first proper cyberpunk novel, and won the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and Hugo Award after being published in 1984. It was Gibson's first novel. Set in a dystopian future which many readers find chillingly plausible, it tells the story of Case, an out-of-work computer hacker hired by an unknown patron to participate in a seemingly-impossible crime.

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William Gibson - Cyberpunk - Nebula Award - Philip K. Dick Memorial Award - Hugo Award - 1984 - Dystopian

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The novel examined the concepts of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, multinational corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state and cyberspace (a computer network called the matrix) long before these ideas were fashionable in popular culture. Gibson also explored 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.

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Artificial intelligence - Virtual reality - Genetic engineering - Corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state - Cyberspace - Popular culture - Free market

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