Everyone would assume I'd copied my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film." He re-wrote the first two-thirds of the book 12 times, feared losing the reader's attention and was convinced that he would be "permanently shamed" following its publication yet what resulted was seen as a major imaginative leap forward for a first-time novelist. After viewing the first 20 minutes of the landmark film Blade Runner (1982), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he "figured was sunk, done for. Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of "blind animal panic" at the obligation to write an entire novel-a feat which he felt he was "four or five years away from". Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the second series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to feature debut novels exclusively. The term "Screaming Fist" was taken from the song of the same name by Toronto-based punk rock band The Viletones. Author Robert Stone, a "master of a certain kind of paranoid fiction", was a primary influence on the novel. Gibson heard the term " flatlining" in a bar around twenty years before writing Neuromancer and it stuck with him. John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) influenced the novel Gibson was "intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake 'You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad' It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot." The novel's street and computer slang dialogue derives from the vocabulary of subcultures, particularly "1969 Toronto dope dealer's slang, or biker talk". The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome" (1982), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic" (1981) laid the foundations for the novel. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up hacker hired for one last job, which brings him in contact with a powerful artificial intelligence.īefore Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for US science fiction periodicals-mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Work your way through these, then hit up the Good Housekeeping Book Club for even more feel-good favorites.Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. The one thing they have in common is that all of them are positively captivating. Some of our favorites are recorded with big-name casts full of voices you may recognize, others are just the author or a voice actor sharing the work some are brand-new, others are classic literary texts reinvigorated through your headphones. ![]() (Don't forget to sign up for the Audible free trial using your Amazon account before you go, to make working your way through that TBR pile even more affordable). The next time you find yourself in need of a creative way to pass the time, break out one of these best audiobooks of all time. You can take in a great literary classic or the best books of 2022 hands-free. Some people also process information better by listening rather than visually. Audiobooks are ideal for a hands-free reading experience: when you can't get a seat on a crowded commuter train or to make the drive to work go faster, to help the miles fly by on family road trips when you need to keep everyone in the car occupied (and not fighting with each other) or while you're doing chores, preparing dinner or otherwise just have your hands occupied. ![]() ![]() ![]() While we'll never give up the pleasure of cracking the spine and turning the pages of a great new book, the audio version fits a particular niche.
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