Wednesday, June 9, 2010

#243. Neuromancer

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

Neuromancer (12 Hours): Neuromancer sent massive shockwaves though science fiction and popular culture upon its release in 1984. Those shockwaves can still be felt after 20 years. It is the tale of Case, a console cowboy, otherwise known as a computer hacker who goes on a futuristic Odyssey spanning a nihilistic near-future Earth and slightly beyond. A rich background, experimentalist prose, cuttingly future-modern dialogue and a prophetic dystopian vision combine with a heist plot reminiscent of Elmore Leonard to make a novel that will undoubtoubly win William Gibson an eventual title of GRANDMASTER.