The narration: The narrator did an ok job, however I would have liked more variety in between the different characters. Also, I bet I would get more out of it if I were to do a re-listen sometime down the line. I was almost tempted to give the story three stars but I'm upgrading it to a four because I guess being dumped into a sci-fi world and left to figure it out yourself is part of the experience. There are tons of things happening and you're presented with dermadisks here and simstims there and the book does not hold your hand very much in terms of explaining the plot. The story: I loved the cyberpunk setting, the grimy atmosphere is brilliant but I frequently found myself confused and struggling to follow that's going on. Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece - a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.Difficult book to get through but good atmosphere With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future - a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel.
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