A re-read, but one I do every year or two because of just how much I love this book.
Publisher’s description: “The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace…
Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.“
Neuromancer is one of the great “predictor” novels in sci-fi, others being Snow Crash, 1984, etc. It’s a stark, almost fever dream of a book, and I love it. I love its jet-setting locales; its made-up terminology; its ideas and explorations of those ideas; the character of Molly; the depictions of AI (you can’t help but admire Wintermute a little bit!); the ultimate heist; Dixie Flatline and his ghost laugh; everything, really.
It’s one of the coolest books I’ve ever read.
No negatives, it’s a classic for a reason.