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Neuromancer  

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  • It seems impossible to overstate the cultural and literary impact of Neuromancer, William Gibson's 1984, original paperback novel that, in the mid-1990s, exploded into the mainstream. The novel, a fast-paced, gritty, Raymond Chandler-like meditation on a computing-fueled dystopia of the near future, had an impact on many of its readers much like that of Jack Kerouac's On the Road on the hipster-bohemian counter-culture of the 1950s and 1960s. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Neuromancer]

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