"hacker fiction"

1984 · William Gibson · 271 pages · Science Fiction

Neuromancer is less a novel to be enjoyed than one to be experienced, and the experience is genuinely unlike anything written before or since. The dense prose and disorienting structure are real barriers, not marketing spin, but readers who push through find a world so fully imagined that it shaped the next forty years of science fiction. Whether it's the best introduction to cyberpunk is debatable. That it's the most important one is not.