The narration notes Case killed three people in a drug-fueled rage in the aftermath of his poisoning, and while the narration implies they were drug-runners, details are sparse. Anti-Hero: Basically everyone Case in the classical sense, Molly in the modern sense.In fact, it's because AI is a crapshoot that the Turing Registry and its enforcers exist. Is a Crapshoot: Wintermute and Neuromancer. Unlike most boyfriends in this trope, Case isn't totally helpless or any sort of naïf. Action Duo: Molly and Case, although moreso her than him.The fact that it's somewhat easier for a modern-day reader is solely because fiction writers and scientists alike started using Gibson's words for actual things. When it first came out, very little of the lingo used in the narration made sense to the target audience.

Neuromancer has been compared to impressionist Beat poetry (also note that Gibson is a big fan of William S. Now, he's a useless waste of space on a self-destructive course - until a mysterious Street Samurai by the name of Molly shows up to hire him for one more job. During a job, his employer caught him stealing, and retaliated with a mycotoxin that destroyed his ability to jack into the matrix. Henry Dorsett Case was a 'console cowboy', a hacker for hire in the dystopian future city of Chiba, Japan.

It is also the first of Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (followed by Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive). Considered one of the earliest works in the genre (if not the earliest), the novel showcases its characteristic contrast between 'low-life and high tech' in ways that most modern works related to the genre, Cyber Space and related tropes can be largely traced back to. Neuromancer is a 1984 Science Fiction novel by William Gibson, and the Trope Codifier for an entire generation of Cyberpunk stories.

Neuromancer first edition