Neuromancer

William Gibson

Published in 1983, this is probably one of the first novels in the cyberpunk genre. Jacking into a matrix with hardwired biological/computer connections, nanotech, software based enhancements to humans, asian underground black market clinics to test everything out. More recent books in this genre that I have read are Feed, Snowcrash, Counting Heads. Neuromancer leaves nothing out. Case is a matrix cowboy who was burned and now finds himself a drug junky in the Asian underworld. He is pulled out of his slow suicide for a job and a chance at his life back. Along with other recruits (Molly is the muscle, Armitage the middleman/organizer, Flatline the computer based hacker personality), Case is charged with infiltrating the computer networks of one of the worlds biggest corporations. Who does he actually work for? Does a matrix cowboy have any responsibility to be ethical, or is he just working for the paycheck? How important is his life? A straight up thriller that, 30 years later, is still fresh.
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