Neuromancer

《Neuromancer 神經喚術士》是科幻作家威廉．吉布森1984年的第一部小說，獲得1985科幻小說界“星雲獎”，“菲力普．狄克獎”，“雨果獎”最佳小說三冠王，全世界暢銷六百多萬冊，公認為廿世紀最重要的科幻作品之一，也是迄今我們的中文世界裡嚴重缺席的經典。 吉布森當年創造出一個新名詞，標示出一個新空間 —— cyberspace 符控流域。二十五年後，這個虛擬的網路空間已實際在人人掌上幻化而出，可是他筆下的符控流域卻還是像一座海市蜃樓，在可望而不可及的想像前方，依舊陌生、抽象，並沒有被現實的發展超越或取代。 《神經喚術士》是一個里程碑，科幻小說史上、虛擬世界發展上、人與電腦關係上、小說書寫上的一個里程碑，一個反覆被後來所追溯的原型。它產生在廿世紀八十年代，前輩科幻小說家所想像的世界已逐漸實現，而越戰的動盪，搖滾樂、迷幻藥的青年文化，還有鏡面反光太陽眼鏡，都為八十年代成熟的科幻作家提供了詭譎的刺激，生出了符控龐克 cyberpunk 的人類新型。 《Neuromancer 神經喚術士》的敘述帶著強烈的黑暗／noir小說的氣質。吉布森頽廢的新生代主角，駭客凱斯與女殺手莫莉，被不明的雇主驅策，賭上性命執行神秘任務。小說人物在生死之間翻轉，與難以參透的力量角力；吉布森把陰冷灰色、顛覆不安推到極致，卻不時注入意外的幽默，炫目異相，辛辣語言，使人物與角色生動立體，複雜逼真。 本書中文書介出自《神經喚術士: 亡靈不滅的銀色道路》開元書印社Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.