William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer sparked a new scifi genre when it was released in 1984. His ideas for the structure of information in cyberspace were weirdly predictive, and provided a novel approach to the future that dealt intimately with the technology of that era.

Combining high technology with urban violence, Gibson paints a world of blackmarket tech and drugs, people dealing with business on the streets and the grinding poverty of the slums.

Case is an ex-console cowboy, one of the elite who hacked the datastructures and ignored the flesh, but his ability was burned away by a tailored virus. He is offered the chance to once again fly through cyberspace.

Molly is a mercenary, a street fighter with razored nails and inset lenses covering her eyes, she is like Case, she lives for what she does, but she doesn't like that they don't know who they're really working for.

They are hired by a mysterious figure to do a job they don't understand, that may change the face of cyberspace forever, if they can avoid being killed or arrested in the mean time.

Dealing with concepts ranging from biotech to the nature of reality and the soul, Neuromancer is a chaotic, energetic novel showing a potential future that compells and intrigues despite its nihilism.