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Neuromancer
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson's gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.
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"Unforgettable ... The richness of Gibson’s world is incredible.” (Chicago Sun-Times)
“Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications.” (The New York Times)
"Serious science fiction and fantasy readers cannot resist the classics.... That’s what makes the Penguin Galaxy series so appealing.... Each of the novels here has earned their place in the halls of literary history.... Their small form factor and minimalist covers call out to readers and make them fun to read all over again.” (Kirkus Reviews)
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- Juan Jeronimo FUENTES ARBOLEDA
- 11/08/2019
deceived
Couldn't understand at all the story. The narrative was boring maybe it was the tone. too many names too many references, couldn't even get to a third of the story.
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- Sage
- 11/11/2014
Story? Classic. Narrator? Ugh.
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I've loved this book for decades. "Neuromancer" is nothing less than a classic, and a story I've enjoyed re-visiting every five years — it's always a new experience. That said, narrator Robertson Dean was utterly wrong for "Neuromancer." His voice is flat and without joy, he clearly does not understand quite a bit of the "lingo" he is reading (and thus puts emphasis on the wrong words, which makes following the dialog a trial), and — most tiresomely — this is yet another clueless dude who just CANNOT deliver dialog for female or non-white characters.Molly Millions, one of the most stone-cold women ever put to print, gets a generic, high-pitched whispery voice with just a hint of a nagging whine. That's right — the narrator thought that a half-cyborg killer should sound like a teenage boy impersonating his little sister. Good news — all the rest of the female characters sound like that, too.Asian characters get an unironic "chingchong"-style Chinese accent. An Armenian character gets a VERY poor Russian accent. The black characters sound like a parody of Beatniks from a Looney Tunes cartoon.I'd love to hear this book re-performed by someone like Jonathan Davis, the narrator of Snow Crash, who gave his characters authentic and unique voices. "Neuromancer" deserves a narrator as good as its story.
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- Denis
- 08/04/2016
Great book. Terrible performance.
A really interesting piece of work that requires your undevided attention when listening (so may not be ideal if you are multitasking) due to the complexity of the narrative.
Which brings us to the main con of this particular audiobook... the narrator is terrible. He sounds extremely monotone and disinterested, to a point where it feels like you are listening to a math problems book. It's especially bad at the start when the plot moves at a really slow pace.
This becomes especially evident when compared to the other two books in the series, which are much better narrated.
So yeah, I would suggest you skip the audio version and just get a regular book, it'll be a much better experience.
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- David
- 10/12/2012
5 stars for coolness, 3 stars for give-a-heckness
This is a book that, if you are approaching it for the first time, suffers from having been imitated so much that it seems derivative of its own successors. Neuromancer was genre-defining and it blew a million little geeky minds back in the day, but reading it in 2012, I failed to be enthralled by the goshwow factor. 'Cyberspace' is mainstream now, and stripped away of the novelty that made fans back in 1984 say "This is so freaking cool!" the book is kind of a techy-tech high concept thrill ride with cardboard characters.
So, Case is a 'cyberspace cowboy' who used to "jack in" to the Matrix and go on 'runs' (stealing data from big corporations, governments, etc.) in a near-future where the U.S. has fragmented into tribal/corporate nation-states, but the USSR is still around. (In the foreword to this edition, Gibson comments on his own prescience or lack thereof, acknowledging also all the other things he didn't get right which will strike modern readers, like the existence of payphones and the lack of cell phones.) He tried to steal from one of his employers, and in retaliation they poisoned him in a way that left him unable to jack into the matrix again. Now he's a down-and-outer in Chiba City (yes, there's a taste of 80s "Japan is so cool!" weeabooism here) when he gets recruited for a job by a mysterious guy named Armitage who says he can fix him up. Case also meets Molly, a "razor girl" street samurai. With the rest of his motley crew, Case goes on an adventure that takes him into high orbit to the playground of the super-rich. There are futuristic ninjas, artificial intelligences, and your basic cyberpunk RPG adventure. Again, not really fair to dismiss it like that, because this book invented cyberpunk RPGing and cyberpunk everything else, but unless you really love all things cyberpunk and/or Gibson, you may find, as I did, that Neuromancer just doesn't quite live up to the hype it earned in 1984 with its Hugo and Nebula awards.
William Gibson's writing is superbly clever and descriptive, and boy does he spin ideas. But this is the third book of his I've read, and while I appreciate his craft on a technical level, his stories just don't do much for me. I don't care about his characters.
For SF fans, this may be a good book to read to be familiar with, you know, the "seminal" works of the genre, but I just don't feel compelled to go read the rest of the Sprawl trilogy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27/03/2013
Still my favorite novel
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
No. I've had a poor track record recommending anything of Gibson's to my friends. They just don't get it. Reading (or listening to) his work is like reading poetry: either you get inside his headspace and understand, or you scratch your head and wonder why other people like this drivel.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
No. Robertson Dean's narration suits the Bigend Trilogy far better than it does the Sprawl Trilogy. He's laconic and doesn't have much variation to his voice to differentiate between characters. Neuromancer builds to a fever pitch, and Dean can't match it. If you can manage it, listen to the abridged version that's read by Gibson himself. It's out of print, but can occasionally be found on eBay. It's worth it. (Note to Audible - please obtain the rights to that version!!!)
Any additional comments?
Despite the narration, I'm glad to have this version as well. Unabridged is always more fun.
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- E.L.
- 26/07/2012
Brilliant, genre-altering vision, poor execution
I couldn't even get through the first 30 minutes of this book. The reader chose a voice that was supposed to be gritty, dark, cynical. To me, it was an unlistenable reading -- bland, too slow, substanceless, even disrespectful to an audience trusting the audiobook narrator to interpret character voices and drama. I've had a similar cringy reaction listening to authors reading their own fiction. It was just terrible.
And, even more sad for me (I'm feeling pretty silly, considering the other positive reviews and overall legacy of the book), I.... just didn't like the writing. As far as I could force myself to listen, the author's skill in this case was not worthy of the intelligence and concept of his vision -- which was brilliant. Even within the initial pages/words of the book I recognized his creations as conventions now folded into our whole cultural consciousness. From other reader comments here and elsewhere, it's obvious this book is the genesis of a subgenre of fantasy and science fiction we now take for granted. I love the idea, I'm fascinated by the creativity, and I am passionate about great stories that helped shape fiction.
But I just couldn't get through this spoken book.
I started it again thinking I had been distracted and would tie into it the second time. Nope. So I paused the book. I listened to traffic and my head for awhile. I flipped off a driver who cut me off. I called a friend on speakerphone. I tried the radio. That was even worse. I was procrastinating at that point. I turned the book back on. Still not doing it.
I'm going to take advantage of the new Audible "exchange" feature and exchange this book for something by Neil Gaiman, and then try Necromancer again in ink to see if shaping my own voice and style for the book brings me to the epiphany everyone else had. If you got through my review, thanks for reading.
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- Kindle Customer
- 21/05/2015
A glimpse into the future
This was a book that I had to read twice. It was so packed with descriptive passages that I just couldn't seem to absorb them all at once. Also, the world being described was both similar to our present world as well as totally alien. It was a unique blend of science fact and science fiction.
The story takes place sometime in the not to distant future, and the main character is named Case. Case was a man with a troubled past. He had been a computer jockey, similar to what we would today call a hacker. Case was hired to break into computer systems, usually owned by corporations, and steal specific data. But when he "jacked in" to the web, he was actually in it - a la the movie TRON. He would move around cyberspace through his mind as people move through the physical world.
Case was doing well. He was one of the best at what he did and was making a good living. But then he made a mistake. He decided to steal from his employer, and they injected him with toxins that damaged his nervous system, making it impossible for him to jack in. He went to Japan for surgery to repair his nerve damage, but all were unsuccessful. After running out of money, he turned to hustling to survive and support his burgeoning drug habit.
Enter Armitage, a wealthy man who did not technically exist. Armitage offer Case a cure in exchange for breaking into a highly secure structure. Case is skeptical, but the surgery is a success. Accompanied by Molly, Armitage's security expert, and a motley group of unforgettable characters, Case takes on the nearly impossible task.
This was a great read, science fiction fan or not. The most amazing thing to me was that William Gibson wrote this in 1983! It almost perfectly describes the internet during a time when it wasn't even a concept yet. Many things in this book have come to pass already. How many more will be reality in our future? This is a truly groundbreaking work and a must read for anyone interested in seeing what the future may be like.
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- Frank
- 14/07/2016
The Matrix, well ahead of its time
Not a huge sci-fi fan but was curious about this book because many reference it as part of the digital culture "origin story" that spawned things like the Matrix movies and other digital world creation stories. It's impressive that this book was written so long ago and still got so much right about the future. Yes, there's a bunch of tangent story lines and sequels I won't be reading but it's good to know the context behind books like this, which you can only get by reading them. I'd recommend it for that reason alone.
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- Lee
- 26/04/2012
What Fun!
I enjoyed reading Neuromancer as a twenty year old when it first came out. I didn't know if I would still enjoy it twenty years down the road. Well, it's still love! It's obvious to me now that this is noir. it has more in common with The Maltese Falcon than with most sci-fi. It is just the right blend of melodrama, action, mystery, and campiness. I also really like the setting. Having grown up in the 80s, it makes sense to me. I dont know what it would seem like to a current twenty year old.
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- wendy
- 02/10/2011
Great narration!
I've read this book a handful of times but had never listened to an audiobook version of it.
Honestly, the story is so vivid in my mind I was a little worried about what a bad narration would do to it. Well, never fear - Robertson Dean does a marvelous job! So it has been a treat listening to the story come alive through my headphones. Great job bringing the story to life.
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- Darwin8u
- 27/07/2012
Not a perfect SF novel, but still an amazing book.
Gibson reinvented the science fiction genre novel with his novel Neuromancer. A Verne-pitched, future novel that seems to have amazingly apprehended and captured much of the core and substance of the 21st century. The closest novel in both form and function is Stephenson's Snow Crash, but Gibson wrote this 8 years (an eternity in cyberspace) previous to Snow Crash. Gibson's prose (and clothing-fixation) is sometimes really REALLY annoying, but his style remains difficult to reproduce or replicate. Some writers can temporarily capture the asiangloss of Gibson's sprawl and cyberspace but lack the methgrit of Gibson's haunted prose clutter. Not a perfect SF novel, but still an amazing book.
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- BeMu
- 02/10/2018
A classic, sure, but ...
The perhaps counterintuitive bit first: I loved the book, and as many critics have said before, it is one of the few examples where a writer's imagination perfectly anticipated the real world's turn of events. As ordinary as the "cyberspace" may seem from a 2018 point of view, its anticipation in the early 1980s is brilliant. And the book certainly is written excellently.
And that is the crux: the BOOK deserves all the praise. As an audio book aficionado, I normally prefer a good audio book to its paper-based version - except in this case. Gibson's writing is so dense, so authentic, the world he paints so perfectly self-contained, that I as a listener often lost track of the characters, their storylines, the nuances of their backstories and the overall plot. While not an issue in the book, where you can just go back and forth, this being thrown into the very deep end is quite a challenge for the listener. In this one instance, I would have preferred to read the book rather than listen to it.
Matter are made slightly worse by a rather common trouble many producers come across: lack of pauses between sections and chapters often makes it difficult to realize where one is in the narration.
On a personal note: I would prefer it if the narrators would not try and imitate dialects. Not only does it not work, but it is also highly disturbing.
All in all: A great book, no question, but I would recommend reading this one rather than listening to it.
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- Dave S.
- 12/08/2019
this reader butchers it!!!!
This book is my absolute favorite. It brought me from a 8th grade reading level to someone who reads regularly and at a competent level. That said, the IDIOT that reads this is a BUTCHER!!! The worst I have ever heard in my life!!!!! I have in the past heard a version read by William Gibson. Please find this version and offer it instead of this atrocity and insult to my ears!!!!
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- Reimfloh
- 31/10/2018
Die Mutter des modernen SciFi
Zum Hörbuch: Der Sprecher hat eine angenehme, aber eintönige Stimme, die für mich aber perfekt zu der Stimmungslage in der Geschichte passt. Ich finde zusammen mit Gibsons Sprache im Roman ist die Geschichte insgesamt sehr herausfordernd, vor allem für die non-native speakers. Ich habe überhaupt kein Problem damit Irving auf Englisch zu folgen, aber bei Gibson und Dean als Sprecher hatte ich wirklich meine Schwierigkeiten. Es gibt Handlungs- und Ortssprünge die sich aus dem Kontext ergeben die in dem eintönigen Sprachbrei für mich untergegangen sind. Plötzlich findet man sich in irgendeiner Bar, einem Hotel oder einem Raumschiff wieder und fragt sich wie man da jetzt wieder hingekommen ist. Die Zusammenhänge sind oft schwer verständlich. Das ganze Buch habe ich so gehört, dass ich im Endeffekt aus den geschätzten 40% die ich wirklich verstanden habe "zusammengefühlt" habe was da gerade passierte. Ich sage bewusst "zusammenfühlen" statt "zusammenreimen" weil man sich in diese Welt wirklich einfühlen muss als, dass man sich einen Reim darauf machen kann. Wenn Sie mich fragen was im einzelnen, im Detail, da wirklich haargenau und konkret passiert ist: Keine Ahnung. Ich habe die Geschichte so aufgenommen wie einen Traum. Aber das war dann auch mal eine ganz eigene Erfahrung.
Zur Geschichte: Es gibt den SciFi der sich mit dem Menschen beschäftigt wie wir ihn kennen in einer, meist, aber nicht immer, technologisch fortgeschritteneren, zukünftigen Umgebung. Seine Technologie ist Mittel zum Zweck. Bei Neuromancer hatte ich das Gefühl der SciFi wird eine Stufe intensiver. Er beschreibt den Menschen der mit seiner Technologie verwoben ist die in Richtung einer Verschmelzung von Mensch und Maschine hinausläuft. In seiner Zukunft gibt es den Menschen nicht mehr den wir kennen, der Mensch ist halb Maschine, die Maschine ist halb Mensch. Dabei geht es aber nicht bloß um Cyborgs, sondern um ein echtes Verschwimmen der beiden Welten. Auch die maschinellen Entitäten (KIs) nehmen ihrerseits menschliche Gestalt an und interagieren mit derselben Umwelt in der sich auch der Mensch bewegt. Trotzdem, und das ist irgendwie noch die Brücke zur Gegenwart, gibt es noch so etwas wie menschliches Handeln und Denken. Ich denke, dies ist deshalb interessant, weil Gibson damit die Basis für die aktuell vorherrschende Zukunftsvision legt. Wenn es darum geht die Wahrscheinlichkeit abzuschätzen, dass eine Menschheit im 23. Jhdt so beschaffen ist wie Star Trek oder wie in Neuromancer, dann würde ich wohl eher auf Neuromancer tippen. Der Einfluss von Technik auf unser Leben ist mittlerweile so stark und omnipräsent geworden, dass ich mir nicht vorstellen kann, der Mensch an sich würde davon verschont bleiben. Ich bin eher dazu geneigt an eine Wechselwirkung zu glauben. Der Mensch schafft eine Umgebung, aber die Umgebung formt auch den Menschen. Die Frage bleibt natürlich inwiefern es möglich ist die, wie Harari sie nennt, biologischen Algorithmen und die, nennen wir sie, digitalen Algorithmen tatsächlich zu vereinen. Das Erfahren des "Cyberspace" in Form von Sinneseindrücken die auf unser Gehirn und Nervensystem einwirken und die Steuerung dieses Cyberspaces in ebenderselben Form erscheinen, trotz einiger wissenschaftlicher Fortschritte, noch vollkommen utopisch. Genau diese Utopie ist Teil von Gibsons Neuromancer und gerade deswegen weil es noch so unvorstellbar scheint, ist sie auch besonders spannend. Und das, man muss es ehrlich sagen, obwohl Neuromancer schon 34 Jahre auf dem Buckel hat.
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- Timo Weidner
- 11/04/2018
Autor top, Sprecher überzeugt nicht
Gibsons Sprache und Erzählkunst ist großartig, nur leider ist der Sprecher viel zu monoton und die Stimmlage ist Geschmackssache. Das Hörbuch im Original ist aufgrund der unglaublich plastischen Beschreibungen ein Vergnügen und um Längen besser, als die (gute) deutsche Übersetzung. Als Sprecher wünsche ich mir hier Rupert Degas, der dem Text sicher gerecht werden würde.
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- Fabian Zimmer
- 12/02/2019
Female voices..
..voiced by men are tough, but I had to stop listening. Otherwise the narrator is doing a fine job and the story is captivating.
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- Patick Vogl
- 25/01/2021
Milestone in the Cyberpunk genre
Story a little bit to jumpy for me, but amazing atmosphere and characters. Truly one of the first good Cyberpunk stories, but not the best one in my opinion.