Sprawl Series Complete 4 Books Collection Set by William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive & Burning Chrome)

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Linda Lee. A drug addict and resident of Chiba City, she is the former girlfriend of Case, and instigates the initial series of events in the story with a lie about his employer's intention to kill him. Her death in Chiba City and later pseudo-resurrection by Neuromancer serves to elicit emotional depth in Case as he mourns her death and struggles with the guilt he feels at rejecting her love and abandoning her both in Chiba City and the simulated reality generated by Neuromancer.

Count Zero was nominated for the Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards in 1986, [5] as well as the Hugo and Locus awards in 1987. [6] [7] [8] See also [ edit ] Gibson, William (September 23, 2006). "Johnson Bros". WilliamGibsonBooks.com. Archived from the original on October 21, 2007 . Retrieved November 4, 2007. Buwalda, Minne (2002-05-27). "Voyager". Mediamatic.net . http://www.mediamatic.net/article-5817-en.html . Retrieved 2008-06-11.

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Hepfer, Karl (2001). "The Matrix Problem I: The Matrix, Mind and Knowledge". Erfurt Electronic Studies in English. ISSN 1430-6905. Archived from the original on July 5, 2004 . Retrieved August 27, 2007. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby. Lim, Dennis (August 11, 2007). "Now Romancer". Salon.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2008 . Retrieved October 30, 2007. The Cyberspace Matrix, a synergistically linked computer network of databases that encompasses all information on Earth, has become home to sentient beings. But most of humanity remains unaware. I felt that I was trying to describe an unthinkable present and I actually feel that science fiction's best use today is the exploration of contemporary reality rather than any attempt to predict where we are going ... The best thing you can do with science today is use it to explore the present. Earth is the alien planet now.

Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the second series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to exclusively feature debut novels. Given a year to complete the work, [35] Gibson undertook the actual writing out of "blind animal terror" at the obligation to write an entire novel– a feat which he felt he was "four or five years away from". [16] After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner (1982) which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he "figured [ Neuromancer] was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I'd copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film." [36] He re-wrote the first two-thirds of the book twelve times, feared losing the reader's attention and was convinced that he would be "permanently shamed" following its publication; yet what resulted was a major imaginative leap forward for a first-time novelist. [16] Kennedy, Pagan (January 13, 2012). "William Gibson's Future Is Now". New York Times Book Review. New York, NY. New York Times. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012 . Retrieved January 22, 2012.Gibson read an abridged version of his novel Neuromancer on four audio cassettes for Time Warner Audio Books (1994), which are now unavailable. [31] An unabridged version of this book was read by Arthur Addison and made available from Books on Tape (1997). In 2011, Penguin Audiobooks produced a new unabridged recording of the book, read by Robertson Dean.

Armitage has Case and Molly steal a ROM module that contains the saved consciousness of one of Case's mentors, legendary cyber-cowboy McCoy Pauley. a b Calcutt, Andrew (1999). Cult Fiction. Chicago: Contemporary Books. ISBN 978-0-8092-2506-4. OCLC 42363052. Lawrence Person in his "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" (1998) identified Neuromancer as "the archetypal cyberpunk work", [15] and in 2005, Time included it in their list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, opining that "[t]here is no way to overstate how radical [ Neuromancer] was when it first appeared." [13] Literary critic Larry McCaffery described the concept of the matrix in Neuromancer as a place where "data dance with human consciousness... human memory is literalized and mechanized... multi-national information systems mutate and breed into startling new structures whose beauty and complexity are unimaginable, mystical, and above all nonhuman." [4] Gibson later commented on himself as an author circa Neuromancer that "I'd buy him a drink, but I don't know if I'd loan him any money," and referred to the novel as "an adolescent's book". [22] The success of Neuromancer was to effect the 35-year-old Gibson's emergence from obscurity. [23] Adaptations [ ] Gibson's vision, generated by the monopolising appearance of the terminal image and presented in his creation of the cyberspace matrix, came to him when he saw teenagers playing in video arcades. The physical intensity of their postures, and the realistic interpretation of the terminal spaces projected by these games– as if there were a real space behind the screen – made apparent the manipulation of the real by its own representation. [161]a b c d Bolhafner, J. Stephen (March 1994). "William Gibson interview". Starlog (200): 72. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011 . Retrieved July 14, 2009. While logged into cyberspace, Case glimpses Neuromancer standing in the distance with Linda Lee, and himself. He also hears inhuman laughter, which suggests that Pauley still lives. The sighting implies that Neuromancer created a copy of Case's consciousness, which now exists in cyberspace with those of Linda and Pauley.

The story arc which frames the trilogy follows a wide cast of characters in a persistent, ongoing narrative - the major commonality between the three being The Sprawl itself. It focuses on the self-contained stories of each character, and highlights their narrative links through suggestion, references, and imagery.The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future. a b c Loder, Kurt. "The Matrix Preloaded". MTV's Movie House. Mtv.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2007 . Retrieved November 7, 2007. Maddox, Tom (1989). "Maddox on Gibson". Archived from the original on October 13, 2007 . Retrieved October 26, 2007. This story originally appeared in a Canadian 'zine, Virus 23, 1989. a b Gibson, William (July 22, 2006). "Where The Holograms Go". Archived from the original on November 21, 2007 . Retrieved November 26, 2007.