From: syderange@aol.com (Syderange)
Subject: Book Review - Neuromancer
Date: 11 Apr 1995 20:45:38 -0400


Neuromancer
by
William Gibson
Ace Edition 1984

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.  

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. 

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.