Neuromancer

277 pages

English language

Published June 25, 1994 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
9780002252324

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4 stars (7 reviews)

The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel.

More information on the [novel's official page][1].

[1]: www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp

31 editions

Neuromancien

4 stars

Il se passe quelque chose avec la traduction qui rend difficile de rentrer dans le texte, et à la fois lui donne un ton si particulier et si direct que naissent de nouvelles images, ou au contraire des concepts abstraits difficiles à mettre en image (et alors on s'accroche aux mots, à leur forme et à leurs sons pour donner une texture et une consistance au concept). J'aime beaucoup cette idée, par exemple, qui fait appeler les espaces informatiques qu'on doit infiltrer des "glaces", ce qui est à la fois très visuel (elle reflète, elle se brise, on voit à travers sans pouvoir y pénétrer) et suffisamment abstrait pour que l'image qu'on s'en fait reste imprécise, changeante et donc beaucoup ancré dans le mot lui-même ("glace") sa sonorité et sa poésie. Je ne l'ai pas lu en anglais donc je ne saurais pas dire à quoi ressemble l'écriture de Gibson, …

Debe leerse con gran disposición

3 stars

Uno de los libros que me ha resultado más difícil de comentar/calificar... Por un lado, me parece admirable la forma en que Gibson se adelanta a su tiempo de maneras que muy pocos se atrevieron y muchos menos consiguieron convertir casi en "profecías". Por otro lado, la narrativa es difícil de seguir... No por compleja, quizás es un asunto de gusto personal o del momento de mi vida en que lo leí, pero me costó conectar emocionalmente con los personajes. Me lo apunto como un libro al que le debo una segunda lectura, con una disposición diferente de mi parte.

reviewed Neuromancer by William Gibson

Desert Island Pulp Sci-fi

5 stars

Anyone wanting to argue than Neuromancer has aged like either milk or wine will readily find all the examples they could want to make their case; but the depiction of the consensual hallucination in Neuromancer still reads like a more futuristic network and virtual reality technology than anything we have today.

The words visionary and iconic get thrown around by hypebeasts and idiots to the point they're a debased and inflated currency, but describing Neuromancer without them is telling lies of omission. Parts of Neuromancer still describe a vision of what may yet come (and a far from idealised vision at that).

For anyone who hasn't read it, expect it to make less sense on your first reading than the second. Some things seem overly detailed but on rereading the same ink on the same pages somehow has written different words leaving me a completely different impression second time around. …

More about the ideas than anything else

3 stars

It took a long time to read because it’s so dense and a little abstract the whole way through. Some noir plots in the beginning with an action movie ending, which is all well and good, but the characters don’t have much depth to them.

It’s a absolutely an important piece of sci-fi pop culture but as a novel it’s not memorable for me.

Review of 'Neuromancer (Remembering Tomorrow)' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I thought I'd read this before, but remember nothing. Which is surprising, because it was really freak'n cool. From the very first line, it's all so dang evocative. I had to re-read so much of it to savour each description. But also had to re-read a lot because I only read a page or two at a time, and I got lost a lot returning to it, because everything moved so fast. But hot dang, I see why it's a classic.

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5 stars