Case was one of the best cyberspace cowboys, trained by the best. As a thief, though, his mistake was not that he stole from his employers, but that he got caught. He was punished for his offense by having a toxin introduced to his nervous system that made him unable to properly access his console interface, making him unemployable. Since then, he spends his time in the Sprawl, slowly killing himself through substance abuse.
And then he's found by Molly, a hired gun of sorts with retractable claws under her fingernails, like some kind of female Wolverine. They're building a small team for a big job, and they need a hacker to jack into the matrix for them. With the promise of freeing him from the toxin sacs in his system, Case agrees to be their guy. The Tessier-Ashpool dynasty has some AI that's apparently getting a little high on itself, but the closer the team gets to closing in on Wintermute and the program they're after, the closer they all come to being killed.
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So, alright. I had heard tons of amazing things about this book, and about the author. When I saw that Neuromancer had won these impressive awards, I was sure that maybe I could not go wrong with it. And okay, yeah, I can see where it became the catalyst of a whole new movement in the science fiction sphere. The gritty, dystopian setting, with its futuristic technology is pretty fascinating, and so much of the book is very visual in nature. This speaks volumes for Gibson's descriptive technique, and I think it would translate magnificently to film with the right production team.
