NEUROMANCER by William Gibson (1984)
I have a difficult relationship with this novel.
I know that it is one of the most groundbreaking and significant SF works ever written but each time I pick it up I always get lost in the dense prose and what hits me as an overwhelming rush of jargon.
As most will know, this was where the word ‘cyberspace’ was first popularized and for that alone Gibson is assured of immortality, at least until the wires of that feed the human race are permanently unplugged.
He brilliantly describes the then fledgling internet as a “consensual hallucination” and the lead character Case is paid to hack into “the infinite neuroelectric void of the matrix”. Continue reading
