Neuromancer (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Gibson
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The late twenty-first century
- Setting: Japan, New York, Istanbul, and space habitats orbiting Earth
- Principal Characters: Case, Linda Lee, Molly, Armitage, Pauley McCoy, Peter Reveira, Aerol, Maelcum, 3Jane Tessier-Ashpool, Hideo, Wintermute, Neuromancer
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Twenty-first century, Human race, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Technology, Internet
- Locales: New York, Space, Japan, Istanbul, Turkey
The Novel
William Gibson divides Neuromancer into three parts, plus an epilogue. The first takes place in Chiba City, a Japanese industrial town where Case is a street hustler. The second part occurs in New York and Istanbul, and the third takes place on two space stations in orbit around the earth. All the events take place within a few months in the late twenty-first century. Gibson uses an omniscient third-person narrator throughout the story, but the narrator describes events only from Case’s point of view and invents jargon and slang.
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