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“Neuromancer came out in 1984 from the astounding Canadian author, William Gibson. It’s a heist novel. It’s set in a somewhat plausible near future with corporates and AI and cybernetics; where you access the internet through virtual worlds, and where everything is interlinked in a fascinating, rich, really well-developed world. That is why Neuromancer is immensely fun.” Read more...
“Neuromancer by William Gibson is the seminal cyberpunk book: it’s the thing that the web is based on. It’s a pretty typical cyberpunk story, being the one of somebody wronged, who has to jack into the mainframe to clear his name. The main characters are pretty distasteful, but because they’re part of this society that is in and of itself a dystopian environment, they’re using these technologies to make these worlds better. They create a real romance around what technology is and what technology can be” Read more...
The best books on Virtual Living
Aleks Krotoski, Journalist
