ManCave Book Club - Neuromancer by William Gibson

Gentlemen.
Membership in the Mancave Book Club is limited to those proudly carrying the time-honored XY chromosome set — yes, fellas only.
We'll be meeting inside the sovereign realm of Dave’s living room.

This is a potluck as for dinner.

# Neuromancer by William Gibson

Neuromancer is a fast, neon-lit, noir-style thriller set in a gritty, high-tech future where cyberspace is a vast virtual landscape that hackers can physically “jack into.” The story follows Case, a washed-up computer cowboy who once navigated the digital underworld with elite skill — until he double-crossed the wrong people and had his nervous system crippled, leaving him unable to enter cyberspace.
He’s recruited by a mysterious employer who offers him the one thing he wants most: the ability to hack again. In exchange, Case and a razor-sharp street mercenary named Molly must pull off a series of nearly impossible cyber-heists. As they dig deeper, they uncover a sprawling conspiracy involving artificial intelligences, corporate power struggles, and the question of what consciousness even means.
The novel blends:

• high-tech hacking
• street-level crime
• artificial intelligence
• dystopian megacities
• philosophical undertones
• and a noir, hard-edged writing style

All told, Neuromancer reads like a hallucinatory crime novel wired into the motherboard of a future world — stylish, disorienting, and massively influential.

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2018
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2019
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2020
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