Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature by Booker M. Keith

Author:Booker, M. Keith
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2012-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

NEUROMANCER (1984)

Neuromancer is a novel by William Gibson that is widely regarded as the signature work of cyberpunk science fiction. Neuromancer already contains most of the central characteristics of the subgenre, including such science fictional conceits as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, while also employing both a plot and a style that are at least partly derived from hard-boiled detective fiction. Neuromancer is also typical of cyberpunk in its skepticism toward the technological utopianism that often drove earlier science fiction. For example, one of the key features of the near-future world of the text is a vast dystopian urban “Sprawl,” in which spectacular advances in computer technology have done little or nothing to solve social and economic problems, which, if anything, have gotten worse since the Reaganite 1980s in which the book was written.

Gibson quickly extended Neuromancer into the “Sprawl” trilogy with Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), as well as a collection of short stories titled Burning Chrome (1986), and these volumes soon came to be regarded as the most central works of cyberpunk fiction.

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