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Neuromancer by William Gibson

About 571 pages (171,342 words) in 25 products

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Neuromancer Quotes
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This article or section should be merged with William Gibson . Neuromancer is an early cyberpunk novel by William Gibson . Contents 1 Narrator 2 Case 3 Ratz 4 Molly 5 McCoy Pauley 6 Others // Narrator The sky above the port was the color of television,...


Author Biography

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Biography of William (Ford) Gibson
6667 words, approx. 22.2 pages
No other Canadian speculative fiction writer, and possibly no other Canadian writer of fiction, has had as great an impact on late-twentieth-century culture as has William Gibson. Beginning with a series of short stories in science-fiction magazines in t...
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Biography of William Gibson
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Creator of the concept "Cyberspace," science-fiction author William Gibson developed a new fictional landscape for his edgy work--a hallucinatory three-dimensional region built from computer data gathered around the globe. Inventing this fictional settin...
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Biography of William Gibson
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When science fiction author William Gibson wrote his first two novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero, on a manual typewriter, he knew almost nothing about computers. "When people started talking about them, I'd go to sleep," he told the Missouri Review, as...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Neuromancer Information
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Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the so-called science-fiction "triple crown" (the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award). It was Gibson's first...


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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Stepping razor in orbit: postmodern identity and political alternatives in William Gibson's Neuromancer.
01/01/2005: 6,000 words, approx. 20 pages
Much has been written about how cyberspace in William Gibson's Neuromancer allows new forms of identity. Within that cyberspace, the self can be called into question, decentered, split apart, and rendered unknowable. Brian McHale, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Veronica Hollinger, Scott Bukatman, and John...
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Studies in the Novel
"Sinister fruitiness": 'Neuromancer,' Internet sexuality and the Turing test.(Special Number: Queerer Than Fiction)
09/22/1996: 9,467 words, approx. 32 pages
Alan M. Turing's answer to the abstract question, 'Can computers think?' puts forth the idea that proper gender identification can be used to test intelligence or humanness, making the passing of the Turing test equivalent to intelligence. Computer scientists should not follow society's ideological...
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The New York Observer
Has Gibson Lost Ability to Terrify Us?
8/7/2007: 506 words, approx. 2 pages
SPOOK COUNTRYBy William Gibson Putnam, 371 pages, $25.95 By setting his new novel in the recent past—just as he did in Pattern Recognition (2003)—William Gibson once again suggests that post-9/11 international intrigue has become more bizarre than any futuristic world his famed sci-fi imagination might...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Carla Freccero
17,120 words, approx. 57 pages
In the following essay, Freccero contrasts the representations of technology-driven societies in Neuromancer and the Alien film series.
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Critical Essay by Daniel Punday
9,815 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Punday explores the relationship between cyberspace and narrative form in Neuromancer, arguing that the novel “offers us a way to negotiate the conventional discursive elements used within online communication.”
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Interview by William Gibson and Larry McCaffery
9,486 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following interview, Gibson discusses the concept of cyberspace, the cyberpunk movement, and the influence of popular culture on his writing.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Comparison of Neuromancer and We So Seldom Look on Love
1,190 words, approx. 4 pages
Compares realism as presented in Neuromancer by William Gibson and We so Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy. Describes how the stories explore the boundaries of realism by using similar elements, including the margin between life and death, which these two stories address.


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