NEUROMANCER

Paperback, 320 pages

Portuguese language

Published Aug. 19, 2016

ISBN:
978-85-7657-300-5
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4 stars (24 reviews)

O Céu sobre o porto tinha cor de televisão num canal fora do ar. Considerada a obra precursora do movimento cyberpunk e um clássico da ficção científica moderna, Neuromancer conta a história de Case, um cowboy do ciberespaço e hacker da matrix. Como punição por tentar enganar os patrões, seu sistema nervoso foi contaminado por uma toxina que o impede de entrar no mundo virtual. Agora, ele vaga pelos subúrbios de Tóquio, cometendo pequenos crimes para sobreviver, e acaba se envolvendo em uma jornada que mudará para sempre o mundo e a percepção da realidade. Evoluindo de Blade Runner e antecipando Matrix, Neuromancer é o romance de estreia de William Gibson. Esta obra distópica, publicada em 1984, antevê, de modo muito preciso, vários aspectos fundamentais da sociedade atual e de sua relação com a tecnologia. Foi o primeiro livro a ganhar a chamada “tríplice coroa da ficção científica”: os prestigiados …

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Debe leerse con gran disposición

3 stars

Uno de los libros que me ha resultado más difícil de comentar/calificar... Por un lado, me parece admirable la forma en que Gibson se adelanta a su tiempo de maneras que muy pocos se atrevieron y muchos menos consiguieron convertir casi en "profecías". Por otro lado, la narrativa es difícil de seguir... No por compleja, quizás es un asunto de gusto personal o del momento de mi vida en que lo leí, pero me costó conectar emocionalmente con los personajes. Me lo apunto como un libro al que le debo una segunda lectura, con una disposición diferente de mi parte.

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Desert Island Pulp Sci-fi

5 stars

Anyone wanting to argue than Neuromancer has aged like either milk or wine will readily find all the examples they could want to make their case; but the depiction of the consensual hallucination in Neuromancer still reads like a more futuristic network and virtual reality technology than anything we have today.

The words visionary and iconic get thrown around by hypebeasts and idiots to the point they're a debased and inflated currency, but describing Neuromancer without them is telling lies of omission. Parts of Neuromancer still describe a vision of what may yet come (and a far from idealised vision at that).

For anyone who hasn't read it, expect it to make less sense on your first reading than the second. Some things seem overly detailed but on rereading the same ink on the same pages somehow has written different words leaving me a completely different impression second time around. …

More about the ideas than anything else

3 stars

It took a long time to read because it’s so dense and a little abstract the whole way through. Some noir plots in the beginning with an action movie ending, which is all well and good, but the characters don’t have much depth to them.

It’s a absolutely an important piece of sci-fi pop culture but as a novel it’s not memorable for me.

Review of 'Neuromancer (Remembering Tomorrow)' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

I thought I'd read this before, but remember nothing. Which is surprising, because it was really freak'n cool. From the very first line, it's all so dang evocative. I had to re-read so much of it to savour each description. But also had to re-read a lot because I only read a page or two at a time, and I got lost a lot returning to it, because everything moved so fast. But hot dang, I see why it's a classic.

Review of 'Neuromancer' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

So very tough to rate this book, as I suppose it's tough with everything that you consider a classic. Neuromancer is -the- classic cyberpunk novel. When I read this I had flashbacks of playing Shadowrun and reading Shadowrun novels. I had no idea how closely the RPG really stuck with this world of deckers who fight ICE in the matrix. Its influence is outstanding.

The story itself is not that easy to read, not always captivating. Our protagonist is Case, a drug addict and former hacker who had the ability to access cyberspace removed when he tried to cheat his former boss. He's now a substance-abusing wreck living in Japan who does criminal jobs. A street samurai called Molly locates him and offers him a job working for an ex-military guy in a mysterious hacking project. If he joined the team, he'd get his cyberspace access back. Case joins and …

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