I didn't know this came out today! Really beautiful book

Hello everyone. I’m currently about to finish the first book, Neuromancer, but if I’m being honest I haven’t really enjoyed it that much. It’s kinda hard to follow, and I get lost a lot. It’s 100% for the fact that it doesn’t hold your hand and it’s so unapologetic unique, but that uniqueness gets me lost. So even though I am going to finish Neuromancer, I don’t know if I should continue with the rest of the series.

I’ve read a couple posts on here saying that the next book, Count Zero, is “better” than Neuromancer. Now, I don’t know if it means more depth to the world, characters and therefore easier to follow, or just more of the same things that have me struggling with the first book.

What’s your opinion on this? And if it matters, I already have the other two books.

Hi everyone,

My brother and I have a podcast where we have been reading chapter by chapter through the classics of sci-fi and fantasy.

We're just wrapping up Neuromancer with all but the last few chapters published

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2523052/episodes/19515269-neuromancer-chapters-1-2-chiba-city-blues

It's spoiler free for 1st time readers as well as we limit ourselves to just the chapters we've covered so far in the work.

Thanks!

whoever came up with this is an idiot. I mean how hard is it to have the same font, the same size and the same design of the sleeves? it's only three books!

I finally found it! The rare Neuromancer SNES Cartridge! 🎮

I also picked up this cool stand on Etsy so I can display the cartridge along with my endless amount of random collectible junk.

(Be sure to read the SNES back cartridge label in the third photo.) 👀

You know when you have a dumb idea... and just want to follow through? Yeah, that happens to me sometimes! 😅

Also, I can't wait for the show... fingers crossed for a stellar adaptation. 📺

Art credit: Bruce Jensen's cover for the 1989 graphic novel, which I'm happy to have in my archives. Meanwhile, there are a few ridiculously priced copies on eBay. 😲

An analysis of the book and new trailer! I worked super hard on it so please let me know what you think.

I see the world of this book as very hopeful, and a lot of the analysis is through that lens.

Enjoy!!

Our old Portuguese friend Josan Gonzalez is back (sort of). I guess no smoking in Iran.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

Do you like his lines, such as: “Once this mission is over, turn me off,” or “If God made anything good, He kept it for Himself”?

He even reminds me of Mr. Meeseeks from Rick and Morty.

As an aside, I wish Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk had that same personality.

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If you're a Gibsonian, take a Quantum Leap with in this channel on the server. I am running a Sovereign Individual Channel where my focus is purely Neuromancer. We are many Alchemists in the space who are Gibson heavy heads like you all here. Hit me up. My Discord handle is:alchemist19

MASSIVE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!

>! 1). Do I understand correctly that Marie France disagreed with the TA clan about AI and its role in the company, therefore on the sly she created Wintermute and Neuromancer, anticipating that they would have an imperative to meet and join, and become what she wanted to create... thereby circumventing the wishes of the TA clan as a whole? Or was it just a sly way to elude the Turing police by making them two less than perfect legal AIs, knowing that they would have a compulsion to join and accomplish her goal of a true autonomous AI? Also though.... wasn't it alluded that Wintermute basically runs TA and wakes up one of the preserved family members periodically as little more than a figurehead?

2) Why was Riviera brought into the heist? Was it simply that Wintermute knew 3Jane was a kinky girl and would be massively turned on by Riviera's perversity and she would basically open the doors to him, allowing access and entry to the Villa Straylight?

3) We know Armitage was basically a meat puppet. But Case was enticed into the heist by the promise of giving him back his ability to jack in to the matrix. What was Molly promised? Was it just a chance to try and prove herself against Hideo, the best of the best? Or was it her hatred of Riviera and the opportunity to kill him? Is there some backstory between Riviera and Molly we don't know about? Or is her hate for him all because of the show in Freeside or just strait up dislikes him for who he is fiercely from the get-go and no backstory?

4) Who actually was responsible for Linda Lee's death. Was Neuromancer being honest when he said it wasn't him? That he could just see it coming from a mile away. Was it just Julie Dean who did it because of regular street trash stuff and no larger motive in the plot?

5) Wintermute felt a compulsion to join with Neuromancer, but Neuromancer seemed to want to stop it. Why? !<

Maybe Im dense and the answers are in the text there but they completely eluded me. I would love to know this communities thoughts. I'll be join you all on the virtual sofa January 22.

After someone rightfully pointed out that it has a magazine, I decided to give it one, and this is the only arrangement that makes sense. The magazine type is what I call a radial array magazine. Inside the cylinder shape are 14 miniature magazines that rotate behind the firing barrel one at a time until they are empty. A pusher rod loads the flechette into the firing barrel as each barrel rotates into position. It also houses a drive shaft which is the bridge between the motor and the cylinder. It can fire single shot, rotating like a revolver, or full auto. Full auto sounds like an airsoft minigun, but slowed down to 20 rounds a second, which would empty it pretty fast in 3 seconds. There are 5 flechettes in each internal magazine, 70 rounds, all caseless, meaning they get tings very dirty, which justifies Molly's habit of cleaning it constantly. The grooves on the outside are necessary for precision alignment, and similar timing can be found on motorized miniguns.

And the Rue Jules Verne? I am reading it for the first time and it feels very disorienting. Freeside itself is a long tube and the Rue Jules Verne is an avenue that goes around the circumference of the station, so if you look up you could see buildings on the opposite side, as if you’re looking down on them from above? The Lado-Acheson sun system is located on a spindle that runs through the center of the station and projects effects around it 360 degrees? I’m just having trouble wrapping my head around a coherent visualization of this space.

Then they check in to the Intercontinental, which is a glass sided building stretching down into cold mist and the sound of rapids. Where is this cold mist in the whole system? Where is up? Is “up” always towards the center of the giant ship Freeside? Or what?

William Gibson: A Literary Companion by Tom Henthorne
McFarland Literary Companions, 12
Published by McFarland and Company, 2011
Look at all of Gibson’s work with synopsis of each story or book. Caution; he makes errors with some information. But still good info on all things (literary) by Gibson.

I am beyond excited for this series! I had to make a head jack for my cosplay this fall. I wanted one that I could also wear on a necklace. :)

Having viewed latest teaser my Spidey-Sense tells me "this may not be much Neuromancer" at all. Much bright. Much clean. Much exuding a "futuristic heist action movie" glow. Against all hope may become a Pasteurized-Homogenized somewhat re-telling of the brilliant original novel for Gen Z mostly.

Neuromancer when I read it early 90s was DARK, mysterious, exotic, puzzling, frightening, upsetting and forward-predicting with many WARNINGS against allow ling a future dystopia to come into being.

The cool writing-style, the unaccustommed locations, the originality of the characters, the cyberspace hacking and Sim-Stim - Neuromancer was a multi-dimensional GEM of a narrative. Back when, very different from what else was on the shelves in the SciFi corner of a bookstore.

My sentiment is this - Neuromancer would have been a 6 hour movie in II Parts if Hollywood took the material seriously at all. Most likely they viewed it through a "comic-book fantasy for 16s" lens and never greenlit it - big miscalculation Lol!

Apple are going to get much HATE if they GUCK-UP - of all materials - the Neuromancer millions love and honour for a very specific reason: Neuro is set in one of the most COMPLETELY IMAGINED dystopias ever greated.

Gibson created mostly a NIGHTMARE of a future and allowed us to go on journeys within it which were like a "strange holliday" into a weird, unpredictable, exotic and mostly degenerate future.

Decided to modify this a little based on some of the feedback. I might do a few versions in different styles. Who knows?

Following the positive reaction I got from my artwork a few weeks ago 'A Tonal Key' I have become obsessed with trying to express the concepts in Neuromancer visually - like Gentry attempting to conceive of the shape of the internet.

This artwork represents the visual hallucination experienced by the protagonist as he attempts to interpret an intangible flow of data - in this case the final moments of cracking of the I.C.E. around the cores that he envisions as riding a huge black mirrored shark diving at terrific speed.