The hacker. Neuromancer launched the cyberpunk generation.

It was the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same.

Ironically, that introduction came in 1984, the year George Orwell's epic "1984" was to take place.

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway –– jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills.

Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way –– and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance –– and a cure –– for a price . . .

Learn more about Gibson:

• The Gibson subject guide at Google
• The Gibson subject guide at Yahoo
• Gibson once said he did not have a Web site of his own. That changed in July 2002. You can see his site here William Gibson Books