Case was the best hacker in the matrix until someone fried his nervous system. A mysterious employer offers to fix him — in exchange for one last job against a powerful AI. Gibson invented cyberpunk, coined "cyberspace," and predicted the internet in 1984. The only novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award simultaneously.
Some sexual content — gritty.
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Moods: Neon Dark Fast Prophetic
Tropes: Hacker AI Cyberspace Corporate Dystopia
Effectively yes — the genre's defining work.
Dense and stylistic — Gibson drops you in without explanation.
Remarkably — written before the web existed.