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William Gibson · 1984
A cyberpunk science fiction novel following Case, a washed-up computer hacker, as he becomes entangled in a dangerous mission involving artificial intelligence, corporate espionage, and virtual reality in a dystopian future.
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What this book knows
Consciousness jacked into corporate cyberspace discovers that mind, body, and identity are already owned by someone else.
ambition-and-status
At twenty-two he'd been a cowboy, one of the best in the Sprawl — jacked into a custom cyberspace deck, his disembodied consciousness projected into the matrix.
NW-RC-003'Anybody any good at what they do, that's what they are, right? You gotta jack, I gotta tussle.'
NW-RC-034mind-and-cognition
Case gazed into the infinite neuroelectronic void of the matrix. 'And your EEG was flat.' 'Well, that's the stuff of legend, ain't it?'
NW-RC-073He heard the words and felt her form them. The link was one-way. He had no way to reply — he began to find the passivity of the situation irritating.
NW-RC-037self-and-identity
Black fire found the branching tributaries of the nerves, pain beyond anything to which the name of pain is given — and a hundred faces from the neon forest, beyond the prison of the skull.
NW-RC-022'It's the closest thing you got to what Tessier-Ashpool would like to be. Hate them instead. Same difference.'
NW-RC-109Illuminates
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