The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome" (1982), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic" (1981) laid the foundations for the novel. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up hacker hired for one last job, which brings him in contact with a powerful artificial intelligence.īefore Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for US science fiction periodicals-mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.
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