Neuromancer

Before the Internet was commonplace, William Gibson showed us the Matrix a world within the world, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. (From Penguin Classics)

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William Gibson is credited with creating the literary science-fiction genre "cyberpunk,"and Neuromancer was the first book to win the sci-fi"triple-crown": the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Awardand the Hugo Award.

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