Neuromancer
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Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson. Set in the near future, the narrative follows Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a tr
First edition cover
Gibson in 2007
Cover of a Brazilian edition, depicting the "razorgirl" Molly
Cover art of volume one of the Tom de Haven and Jensen graphic novel adaptation, published by Marvel Comics in 1989
Cyberpunk
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Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction set in a dystopian future. It is characterized by its focus on a combination of "lowlife and high tech". It features a range of futuristic technological and
Neuromancer
…digital space traversable by humans—and "jacking in", a bio-mechanical method of interfacing with computers. Neuromancer is a foundational work of early cyberpunk, although critics differ on whether the novel ignited the genre or if it was lifted by its inevitable rise. They agree it highlighted the genre's key…
A screenshot of InSilico, a cyberpunk city hub from Second Life
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works.
Metropolis (1927) is considered a work of proto-cyberpunk.