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Neuromancer

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I really enjoy the book Neuromancer, and was really excited when I found a copy of the graphic novel in a used book store in my home town. Since it was sealed I could not look inside until I got home. I must say I was truly dissapointed with the poor art work. I realize the story is the thing, but I bought a graphic novel for the graphics, I already have the text version, and would have stuck with it had I known the art work would be so bad. There is no excuse for a novel of such high quality to have such a low standard of art. While the street scenes and inside scenes looked good the people were lacking. I thought that the character Molly Millions was drawn especially poorly. She looks like Sylvester Stallone in drag most of the time. I am sorry to say this graphic novel was a dissapointment.

De Haven and Jensen have gotten Neuromancer off to a screaming start. It starts with a dark street in a dark city, with Case looking for a place where everyone's an outsider, so he can get drunk among people with at least that much in common. A deal went bad, and the bad guys scorched his brain in revenge. He can think and feel well enough, but they cut him off forever from what he lived for: the Matrix. It's the electronic astral plane where adepts project their spirits, to live out dramas and intrigues realer than real.

Then someone offers him a chance to return - for a price.

This thin volume begins the adaptation of Gibson's epochal novel. Gibson himself introduces this volume, and says that it captures the mood and feel that he tried to embody in words. It's a fair effort, even if the art isn't world-class, but leaves me wishing for the unwritten sequels that would have rendered the rest of the original book.

-- wiredweird

I'm fortunate to have a copy of this. It covers the first third or so of Neuromancer. It's a shame they didn't continue it.

Other William Gibson rarities and short stories at my complete bibliography/mediagraphy, http://www.slip.net/~spage/gibson/biblio.ht

If you like SF, specially the cyberpunk branch, this book is a must. Case, a Netrunner (who cannot jack in the net due some neural damage) is hired to do another run, to crack an ICE, to get into Tessier-Ashpools data...

Gibson's world is vivid, and he takes us trough lot of scenarios, all of them decadent, and all of them possible these days: Night CIty in Japan, Istambul, An spacial station full of Rastafarian guys (The sionites), Ashpool the last of the true magnats in the world...

And the personages are all interestng: Molly, a bodyguard (a razon-girl) with some kind of mirrorshades instead of eyes, Ratz: a bartender with a russian plastic arm, and even the AI's.

I liked it very much, and it's avery good introduction tho the cyberpunk world, that has been partially showed to us with films like "Johnny Mnemonic" or "Lawnmower", and the recent released "The Matrix"

just a comment. The term "CYBERSPACE" first appeared in this novel