Neuromancer by William Gibson, first published in 1984, is a landmark science fiction novel that launched the cyberpunk genre and redefined the boundaries of speculative fiction.
The story follows Case, a washed-up computer hacker in a gritty, hyper-commercialized future where megacorporations control society and cyberspace is a vast, immersive digital frontier. Once a top “console cowboy,” Case is hired by a mysterious employer named Armitage to pull off the ultimate hack — a job that leads him into a tangled web involving artificial intelligences, bio-enhanced assassins, corporate espionage, and existential questions about identity and consciousness.
Gibson’s vision introduced now-iconic concepts such as cyberspace, jacking in, and the Matrix — terms that have since become foundational in both tech culture and science fiction. His writing is fast-paced, noir-inflected, and rich in atmosphere, blending dystopian realism with digital mysticism.
A winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is not only a thrilling cyber-heist narrative but also a deeply influential meditation on the fusion of man and machine, the fragmentation of reality, and the future of human experience in a wired world.
