Neuromancer
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Neuromancer
| Author | William Gibson |
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| Published | 1984 |
| Pages | 317 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | William Gibson’s 1984 debut, the book that gave the word “cyberspace” its meaning: a burned-out console cowboy named Case is repaired and recruited, with a street samurai and a dead man’s stored personality, into a heist run by an artificial intelligence that wants something its owners have forbidden. |
Neuromancer
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble at South Towne, Sandy — May 2025 (Books photo album)
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a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Sci-fi “must reads” section (S tier), under the Sprawl trilogy. They credit Gibson as the main creator of cyberpunk and argue his books supplied most of the aesthetic and vocabulary of the first internet wave — VR, AI, the net as a place you go.
About this edition
The first book of the Sprawl trilogy, followed by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). For an infrastructure reader the interesting part is how much of the imagined plumbing — leased compute, corporate data fortresses, an AI constrained by regulators — arrived roughly as described.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from, where the Sprawl trilogy is an S-tier entry.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates it.
- William Gibson — the author.
- Snow Crash — the later cyberpunk novel already in the library, written downstream of this one.
- Historical Futurism — the research lens.
- Technological Innovation — the concept page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.