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NEUROMANCER BY WILLIAM GIBSON (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)

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 Hello, dear readers. Today I have a new reading recommendation for you: a novel that helped to establish the genre of cyberpunk!  Published in 1984,  Necromancer  won all three major science fiction awards: Nebula, Philip K.Dick and Hugo award. Neuromancer brought fame to its author  William Gibson , an American Canadian writer who (largely thanks to this novel) is today known as the leader of the cyberpunk genre.  A classic of science fiction genre, Neuromancer is a novel that isn't easily forgotten. It's an unique and revolutionary  piece of writing! " It was Gibson's  debut novel  and the beginning of the  Sprawl trilogy . 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 . " cited from Wikipedia .   This is what Britannica has to say about it: " Neuromancer , novel (1984) by  William Gibson  that launched the  cyberpunk  movement within the