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Cyberdeck
The Sprawl trilogy (also known as the Neuromancer trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, and is composed of ''Neuromancer'' (1984), ''Count Zero'' (1986), and ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' (1988). The novels are all set in the same fictional future. The Sprawl trilogy shares this setting with Gibson's short stories "Johnny Mnemonic" (1981), "Burning Chrome" (1982), and "New Rose Hotel" (1984). Setting and story arc The novels are set in a near-future world dominated by corporations and ubiquitous computing. The events of the novels are spaced over 16 years, and although there are familiar characters that appear, each novel tells a self-contained story. Gibson focuses on the effects of technology: the unintended consequences as it filters out of research labs and onto the street where it finds new purposes. He explores a world of direct Brain-computer interface, mind-machine links ("jacking in"), emerging machine intelligence, and a global information space, which he calls " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuromancer
''Neuromancer'' is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian author William Gibson. Set in a near-future dystopia, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist. It was Gibson's debut novel and, following its success, served as the first entry in the Sprawl trilogy, followed by '' Count Zero'' (1986) and '' Mona Lisa Overdrive'' (1988). Gibson had primarily written countercultural short stories for science-fiction periodicals before ''Neuromancer''. Influences on the novel include the detective stories of Raymond Chandler, the comic art of Jean Giraud, and William S. Burroughs's '' Naked Lunch'' (1959). ''Neuromancer'' expanded and popularised the setting and concepts of an earlier Gibson story, " Burning Chrome" (1981), which introduced cyberspace—a digital space traversable by humans—and "jacking in", a bio-mechanical method of interfacing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
