Gibson heard the term " flatlining" in a bar around twenty years before writing Neuromancer and it stuck with him. John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) influenced the novel Gibson was "intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake 'You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad' It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot." The novel's street and computer slang dialogue derives from the vocabulary of subcultures, particularly "1969 Toronto dope dealer's slang, or biker talk". The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome" (1982), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic" (1981) laid the foundations for the novel. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up hacker hired for one last job, which brings him in contact with a powerful artificial intelligence.īefore Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for US science fiction periodicals-mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy.
Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.
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