Neuromancer

DIVThe Matrix is a world iwithin/i the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .brBRCase had been 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.brBRHotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, bNeuromancer/b ranks with b1984/b and bBrave New World/b as one of the century's most potent visions of the future./div

Here is the novel that started it all, launching the Bcyberpunk/B generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With iNeuromancer/i, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. P 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....