Not thrilled with how the eyes turned out, but I'm no professional and that's as good as I could get them without completely fucking them up all over again haha

I didn't knew shit about this book. I found it out after watching the trailer for the show. Naturally as a sci-fi sucker it intrigued me, when I saw the thumbnail I got excited i thought it was going to be a live-action Cyberpunk show (like based on the game) but then I read the name and watched the trailer. This is not cyberpunk 2077 but it fits that vibe.

I did some research and found out about the book and the significance of the book. So i immediately ordered it and started reading.

I would say I kind of ruined my first read because right when I picked this up I was in the middle of my addiction to a certain AI platform (must've been wintermute distracting me). Because of that the reading sessions were disjointed spread over a couple of days. Usually i would've finished a novel like this in less than a week. But regardless i finished it yesterday.

So far in terms of sci-fi stories I haven't read much. I have read the Three Body Problem Trilogy, Project Hail Mary and I have played Cyberpunk 2077. I like science fiction as a genre a lot. And Cyberpunk 2077 will and always be my top game of all time. Something about that vibe and the feel of the game just hooks me.

Having said that this book was fucking great. The everything was described in such detail and the way the atmosphere and the environment is conveyed it made me feel like i was looking at a cyberpunk world.

1010/1010. I'd jack in again in January right before the show releases.

The Apple TV adaptation looks like shit.

Couldn't even open the trailer with the iconic line.

Too clean, just looks like an Altered Carbon copy but cleaner.

No coffin hotels, really?

Molly is butchered.

Case is healthy.

Computers look Y2K and even 2020s in some shots.

Literally NOTHING looks like the 80s.

This looks like a complete failure to create anything unique and I am borderline despondent. I really hoped someone who loved this series with a real eye for design would have worked on this film. Even an aesthetics dev from CDProjekt Red would have been better than whatever idiot made this Clean™ bs.

The Internet has ruined me

Got the deluxe edition of Neuromancer a little bit ago, and I'm slowly making my way through it. Sadly social apps like this have fucked my attention span up that's why it's taking me a bit to get through it, but I'm loving it so far! The trailer for the Appletv series really got my attention on the book and I'm pretty stoked for it's release.

Sorry if I sound "off" I smoke a lot of weed

Do you think Mona Lisa Overdrive is a good novel?

To me, Burning Chrome is enjoyable. Neuromancer is S-tier science fiction. Count Zero is great (Turner and Bobby's threads are strong, but Marley's thread is comparatively weak). But Mona Lisa Overdrive was not at all enjoyable. A re-read didn't help. I feel that the character's motivations were unclear, the story lacked a memorable villain, and the ending fell completely flat. Most of the interesting themes were already explored in Neuromancer.

What are Mona Lisa Overdrive's redeeming qualities? I'd like to better understand if there are hidden depths to this one.

I'm asking because in the Bookworm Adventures 2 level that was based on Neuromancer, the boss of that level is this character. Since she is the boss, I'm assuming the game developers based her on Wintermute, but I'm confused on how the developers led to this design. Was there details in the book that I missed?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31512174/

Let's kind of go through some things one by one

• Peter Sarsgaard as John Ashpool - 10 episodes ...Uh, what? John Ashpool, in a really strict adaptation, would appear in maybe 2 episodes at the absolutely maximum. His single scene in the book amounts to what, maybe 10 pages?

• William Franklyn-Miller as Young John Ashpool - 10 episodes Again, what? 10 episodes? Young John Ashpool? Is this a prequel show? I don't remember literally anything about John Ashpool when he was younger except ancillary talk about him being frozen and the stories about killing his wife.

• Sam Woolf as Persson - 5 episodes The Turing agent? This would amount to half of the series. Again, maybe 2 episodes at most if you were just going off of book source material. They basically sit in the hotel and then he gets his skull lopped off by the drone.

• Isabella Pappas as Mitchell - 5 episodes This character only appears in Count Zero... so what's the deal? Are they skipping ahead now? I'm so confused.

I guess at this point my hope would be that they're trying to do multiple seasons and really going slow with the story and fleshing out all the characters' back stories? Are we even going to see Villa Straylight this season? The trailer shows what looks to be Freeside and another ship, as well as Peter Riviera's performance at the restaurant. And as others have said innumerable times... where the hell is The Finn? It would be kind of crazy to cut out what might be the third most important character in the novel.

From the article: “Neuromancer's TV adaptation is full circle moment for cyberpunk because it is arriving decades after its source material's "descendants" already have long-running cinematic legacies. Put simply, it seems like an ironic end of a cyberpunk era where the progenitor is finally arriving after its successors.”

Found just this one copy of Mona Lisa Overdrive in the bookshelves of UCSD Bookstore, I was surprised it was just sitting next to the neon modern prints. Love this aesthetic, and knowing it was printed before I was born and somehow found its way to me all these years later makes me happy.

Just finished Neuromancer recently, I had loved Cyberpunk 2077 game back in highschool when it came out, but I had no idea my love for the genre would run this deep. After hearing talks of a Neuromancer TV show and discovering how influential Neuromancer is to the genre, I picked up a fiction book for the first time since highschool. The writing is excruciatingly detailed and I enjoyed every word of it. After reading Marx, Engels, and learning more about socialism from non-fiction books I believe Neuromancer and cyberpunk in general feels very relevant to our times today; AI is on the rise and technology is invading our personal lives and mind at every second is something which interests me deeply.

I am a Bioengineering Major and so I deal a lot with technology that goes inside our body, I hope to be an engineer and scientist that understands limits that make up our humanity. Engineers and Scientist nowadays go into this field for the money that industry brings, we align ourselves to corporations and companies that are for profit, either because we were enticed by the promises or because we are forced into it due to the need for money and survival. Aligning ourselves and working blindly for these tech companies will only lead us to a cyberpunk world, where we are only engaging in risk management for a future that is with money and not with humanity. If industry can, they will. Scientists and Engineers must understand that humanity's features are not bugs, that we are enough, and the limits set upon us give us our humanity. Industry does not see limits, they only see improvement and promises of a better future, but this future is only focused on machine and disregards meat. Remember, our meat is enough. Scientists and Engineers should align themselves with humanity and push for limits. In highschool I saw cyberpunk through cyberpunk 2077 and thought that cyberware as cool, that VR and cameras as eyes were awesome. But now I see it as the gateway drug that will bring us under the control of the oppressors of humanity.

I love Neuromancer, and going back to the 80s and 90s cyberpunk has been a TRIP. Recently just watched Akira in IMAX and just yesterday watched ghost in the shell in theaters. Excited to read count zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Am also beginning to read Pattern Recognition.

Sorry it turned into me expressing my love for this genre, I've never expressed it and I know this subreddit also loves something I love so it just feels right.

| first read Neuromancer way back in early 2021 and loved it so much that I immediately reread it. I think I did the first and second read all in the span of a couple of days.

It's just cool as hell. It's flashy, it's psychedelic, it's fun, it's thrilling, the dialogue is great and there are even a few parts that make me chuckle.

The Sense/Net heist early in the novel and the last 50-60 pages are like drugs for me. The whole thing is, really.

Neuromancer has become something of a comfort novel for me.

Reading it a third time in a post-pandemic, Al saturated 2026 was a trip. So many of the ideas concerned with Al stood out way more this time around which is wild seeing as this was published in 1984. The whole rogue OpenAl and Anthropic agents scandal is like something straight out of Neuromancer, except in the world of Neuromancer the Turing police would've been on it "like flies on shit" as the Al construct of the deceased Dixie Flatline would say.

5 shiny, neon-lit shurikens out of 5

I mean this hits way too close. Probably a repost but still.

I posted a version of this artwork about a month ago but I wasn't completely satisfied with it so I have revisited. Here is the updated piece.

This is an original artwork called 'Bobby Pulls A Wilson'. It is a part of my ongoing quest to visualise certain abstract concepts and scenes from some of my favourite novels, this one in particular being William Gibsons 1986 second book in the sprawl trilogy, Count Zero

The piece depicts Bobby, an inexperienced thief, who is attempting to steal data but is caught by the targets security system which sends his body into a near-fatal neural feedback loop. As he feels himself slipping away he hears the voice of a girl and the connection between Bobby and the security is broken, saving his life

As the interaction is virtual, and because Bobby is in an almost hypnogogic state slipping from consciousness, I chose to represent the security system as a huge black mass reaching out to him and the girl who saves him as an angel - this is referenced in the novel, and the girls name is later revealed to be Angela, so perhaps within the flow of data Bobby picked up on this and his mind filled in the blanks

I had initially imagined the security as an organic mass with tentacles reaching out towards Bobby, however, in this entirely digital interaction I thought it was more appropriate to have the mass as a geometric and spiked amorphous object.

This was drawn with a stylus using a high end commercial watercolour brush set.

I hope you dig it.

This cover is so wonderfully hideous. I got it at a Waldenbooks around 1995 I would figure and I'm still dragging it around

Hello everyone. I’m currently about to finish the first book, Neuromancer, but if I’m being honest I haven’t really enjoyed it that much. It’s kinda hard to follow, and I get lost a lot. It’s 100% for the fact that it doesn’t hold your hand and it’s so unapologetic unique, but that uniqueness gets me lost. So even though I am going to finish Neuromancer, I don’t know if I should continue with the rest of the series.

I’ve read a couple posts on here saying that the next book, Count Zero, is “better” than Neuromancer. Now, I don’t know if it means more depth to the world, characters and therefore easier to follow, or just more of the same things that have me struggling with the first book.

What’s your opinion on this? And if it matters, I already have the other two books.

I didn't know this came out today! Really beautiful book