“Neuromancer” — the legendary debut of an author who overturned notions of genre prose and didn’t fit within the boundaries of any single direction. For years to come, this novel set the benchmarks of modern literature and became one of the main pillars of cyberpunk—both as a style and as a cultural phenomenon. Its future is a realm of advanced technologies and bioengineering, global networks, and all-powerful transnational corporations, where the strongest survives—and the cost of a mistake is deadly. Ace hacker Case and the fearless samurai girl Molly must walk the razor’s edge to complete a mysterious mission laid down decades ago in the unfathomable layers of artificial intelligence…
In addition to the novel that opens the “Sprawl” trilogy, this edition includes a collection of short stories, “Burning Chrome.” Among them is “Johnny Mnemonic,” which formed the basis for the cult screen adaptation by Robert Longo (Keanu Reeves, Takeshi Kitano, Dolph Lundgren), and “Hotel ‘New Rose,’” brought to the screen by Abel Ferrara (Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, Asia Argento).
Translations are presented in an updated edition.