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Neuromancer

Count Zero

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Burning Chrome

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Sprawl Series

William Gibson attained over-night international fame after publishing his debut novel, 'Neuromancer', in 1984. It has won all major science fiction awards and defined a whole new genre of science fiction labeled as 'cyberpunk'. Together with 'Count Zero' (1986) and 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' (1988), the two sequels, these books form the so-called 'Neuromancer' trilogy. The setting of these books is a dark, gritty future where multinational corporations rule the world and computer networks are used for nearly all transactions and communications. This series is called 'Sprawl series' here because the short stories 'Johnny Mnemonic' (1981), 'New Rose Hotel' (1981) and 'Burning Chrome' (1982) take place in the same setting and share some of the characters. ¶

neuromancer
Neuromancer
(1984)

  Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. ¶

countzero
Count Zero
(1986)

  The head designer from Maas-Biolabs is defecting to Hosaka. Turner has to deliver him safely, and the biochips he invented - which are of supreme interest to other parties, some of whom are not human. ¶

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Mona Lisa Overdrive
(1988)

  Mona's pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she's turned overnight into someone else. The pimp winds up dead. Mona weeps for him. She's a sweet, dumb girl ... so far. ¶

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Burning Chrome
 (1986)


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