Firstly, what did Colin mean when he vaguely mentioned Centauri in the last page? Also, I have no idea whats going on at the end, in general. I mean, what is 3Jane trying to achieve? Why did Bobby even stay jacked in to the aleph? What was he trying to do? Maybe I should do a reread, it worked with Neuromancer when I had trouble grasping the plot. But for Mona Lisa Overdrive, I had no idea what was going on for the majority of the time.

If you were underwhelmed by the offering from the Folio Society, I just spotted this forthcoming book at Hatchette/Gollancz: https://store.gollancz.co.uk/products/neuromancer?variant=53500253340027

• 200 signed/numbered/boxed copies @ £250
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Neuromancer is set during summer:

SUMMER IN THE Sprawl, the mall crowds swaying like windblown grass, a field of flesh...

Yet they're filming the Chiba scenes in Japan in December: https://imgur.com/psBmWW4. Literally unwatchable!

I honestly don't mind this actually, the Chiba sections have a much more wintery vibe to me anyway.

I wonder if Japan still goes big on Christmas in the sprawl universe? That could be interesting to see

When I was your age, kid, I was ghosting through ICE walls so black they made IBM's fortresses look like open-source playgrounds. I’ve swapped code with constructs that’d make the Dixie Flatline look like a script kiddie. Back in my prime, I wasn’t just slotting black-market Chiba-grade biosofts—I was writing my own, hot enough to light up every TA alert from here to the orbital colonies. Ran black ops for corps so shadowed their board members don’t even know their names.

Face it, deckhead. You’re just another B-grade simstim jockey trying to scrape by on cracked OS and bargain bin cybersuites. Me? I owned the Sprawl grid. I’m the cowboy they still whisper about in the darkest corners of the matrix, the legend whose protocols are still blacklisted to this day. You're playing dress-up in my world, kid.

I just finished Neuromancer, and amongst all the drug dealing, murder, hacking, etc. the only thing Case did that truly made me mad was when he was flirting with Cath in the bar in Freeside, she gave him a dermal amphetamine, and he left right after. He could have at least said "Hey I'm feeling sick I have to step out". This Case guy might not be a good person.

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Cover art for the second edition of Neuromancer for sale at Christie's: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/science-fiction-fantasy/neuromancer-original-cover-artwork-34/239978?ldp_breadcrumb=back

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and complete Neuromancer: the graphic novel artwork: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/science-fiction-fantasy/neuromancer-original-artwork-graphic-novel-35/239982?ldp_breadcrumb=back

Hey, I really liked Neuromancer I started yo read Count zero and got confused by the 3 plot threads that happen simultaneously

Can someone please tell me which chapter belongs to which character

I want to read the story arc of boby then Tarunt and then Marly.

I would also appreciate it if someone could do the same for Mona Lisa Overdrive

Huge thanks

There was a lot to take in overall and I'm having to read up and research theories on what the ending meant exactly, but it was a blast getting through the trilogy, I loved it.

That being said, I noticed something really interesting in Mona Lisa Overdrive that I'm not sure I noticed in Count Zero and it's basically the way the chapter's writing differs based on the character. I noticed Mona's writing is very casual, loose, comes across young and naïve, but you feel the roughness of Slick's chapters or the formality of Angie's.

I never thought about changing the writing style for each character like that and it's crazy how well William has done this. It really adds personality to each character beyond their dialogue and actions, when the writing itself is a reflection of them as a character. The ability to convey what someone is like by constantly changing the way you write to make each character feel distinct is so cool to me.

Just wanted to share that.

I also feel terribly bad for Mona, I felt like she achieved nothing, had no impact on anything, was used by everybody and even in the end, she became Angie against her will and had no agency in becoming rich and ''successful'. It's like she's living more lavishly now than ever before, but also not really living anymore, it's tragic....

I am struggling to find the tape 4 side 1 section of the audiobook of neuromancer narrated by William gibson. I have all the other sections downloaded but the Bearcave.com site has a bad link for t4s1 :(

I'm reading Neuromancer again after years, my version is the Brazilian one, the art cover the same of this subreddit. I was always sure that the Sendai head set involved some heavy structure, VR goggles-like, as in the cover, but reading the part when Case reenter the matrix for the first time it says he wrapped a bandana around his head, with caution to not displace the Sendai connectors, so for me it seemed much more like a small electrode, more "hospital-like", not at all involving something covering the eyes, because it described him closing his eyes and then seeing the matrix. Can someone clarify itn for me? I was very tired reading it lol so there's a chance I didn't get it right, or the choosing of words in the translation confused me.

Which of the artwork in these 2 editions do you prefer?

I was planning on waiting for Folio Society's standard edition probably coming out next year. The cover, I thought, was lackluster, but the illustrations were great. But then I saw this Gollancz limited edition release and found the black-blue illustrations quite cool, there's much more of them too.

Folio Society LE - https://www.foliosociety.com/row/neuromancer.html?srsltid=AfmBOorsM1P66bJbQqeoYVnbV5LofR4E2OAMCrjPdPnUOMdtmPqX1YfA

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Gollancz - https://store.gollancz.co.uk/products/neuromancer?variant=53500253340027

More of Marco Luna's art for the gollancz here - https://marcoluna.co/work/neuromancer

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my recent tattoo inspired by the book. I really like the woodcut style my artist uses and he was able to take concepts from Neuromancer and put his own spin on them!

This book is highly suited for adaptation into film, as its vivid descriptions create powerful mental images. Remarkably, it was published in 1984—a true pioneering work. It’s groundbreaking not only because of its storyline but also for laying the foundation of the cyberpunk genre, capturing a pervasive sense of disorientation. In my view, the sense of confusion, trance, and fragmentation reflects the experience of living in a cyberpunk world. By recording these sensations and allowing readers to feel them, this book establishes itself as a masterpiece.

The narrative structure is also impressive. The book navigates between the real world and simulated realities from the protagonist’s perspective, creating a modern feel. This approach gives the impression that you’re only seeing the surface of a larger, more complex world—one that extends beyond what’s immediately visible.

In my reading experience, True Names, written by Vernor Vinge in 1981, was among the first works to explore the integration of humans and AI. The story depicts a connection between a human and an AI, a theme later revisited in the 1995 animation Ghost in the Shell. Ghost in the Shell not only adopts this theme from True Names but also inherits the narrative style of Neuromancer. Later, The Matrix trilogy delves into AI’s quest for free will. Both Ghost in the Shell and The Matrix are imbued with cyberpunk visuals, a style pioneered by works like Neuromancer.

https://store.gollancz.co.uk/products/neuromancer

Unfortunately doesn't ship to the US if fellow Americans were hoping to get one.

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I finished the book for the first time recently and by far and away its greatest impact on me, is the inescapable realization that the Cyberpunk genre has been long-dead for all intents and purposes, or maybe it was never alive to begin with?

To think that so little has been done to advance Sci-Fi in general but especially Cyberpunk in particular, since Gibson wrote this book in a pre-Internet, largely pre-computing world and laid out all of the foundational concepts, language, imagery and prophecies of a future dystopia, is quite tragic.

Not only does his book rival most modern Cyberpunk-flavoured movies/TV shows/video games in raw imaginative energy and visceral sensory overload alone but it really does seem that the best Hollywood and most writers can do nowadays is to rehash 40-year old concepts with paycheque movies/TV shows that still don't come close to the magnitude of the vision that authors like Gibson had nearly half a century ago now, even with the benefit of modern technology and so many relevant real-world developments to draw inspiration from.

I went into the book with my modern-day grasp of Cyberpunk derived from The Matrix, Blade Runner 2049, Altered Carbon and numerous videogames, thinking it'd be something like going from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight to 1960s-era Batman goofiness... instead, I feel as though Neuromancer basically takes a sledgehammer to most modern Cyberpunk works and exposes them as the cheap, derivative, brain-dead imitators that they are.

Was anyone else also thoroughly impressed and yet simultaneously disappointed after finishing this book?

As I contemplate finally writing that sci-fi (or "speculative fiction" as the genre is called now in the publishing industry) novel idea that's been jangling around in my head for a decade, I decided to see how long William Gibson took to write Neuromancer: I found this brief article by Gibson in the Guardian where he talks about his writing process (he basically learned to write a novel on the fly).

And while there's no timeline given, from what he says in the article we can surmise that it took over a year and a half, at least, if not longer.

According to Gibson, he signed a contract to deliver the manuscript within a year but it took him 18 months. But he got it done and its impact is now widely known.

Hey, hope this is the right place to ask questions about further books in the series.

At the end of chapter 6 (Barrytown) It's implied that Bobby's place gets bombed with his mom still inside, but I don't know if I understand correctly if that is really what had happened or not? He never mentions or asks about it after chapter 6. (I'm only on chapter 14 so far.)

But the end of chapter 6 implies that his block was bombed and that he knew it was meant for him. What is meant by this? I thought Two-a-day's guys went to check on him, but not to bomb his apartment surely? And does that mean his mother who was presumably there died in the bombing?

Kind of lost on this particular bit.

Thanks.

Very early on in the book Case and Molly visit The Finn and he checks case for toxin sacs and says there's nothing there, I thought that implied Armitage lied to Case to keep him under control, but now I'm nearing the end of the book, Armitage had just remembered he is Corto and presumably died ejecting himself out of the ship in chapter 16. Case was desperate to get information out of him about the toxin sacs, so are the toxin sacs real or not? I'm so confused.

Hi, i'm thinking of reading Neuromancer but am concerned that it might be a little dated at this point in time. Is this the case?

The United States could still exist, as a vague political entity. My take is that the Bigs (Big Government, Big Corporations, Big Media, Big Tech etc) have fused into some sort of collusive blob. No elected entity controls much of anything. Leadership of the blob shifts with boardroom politics and palace coups, while the bureaucracies and middle management do as they please, regardless of who's theoretically in charge.