Neuromancer Wikipedia. Neuromancer is a 1. American Canadian writer William Gibson. It is one of the best known works in the cyberpunk genre and the first novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibsons debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. The novel tells the story of a washed up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to pull off the ultimate hack. BackgroundeditBefore Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for American science fiction periodicalsmostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low life protagonists in near future encounters with cyberspace. The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of Burning Chrome 1. Molly Millions from Johnny Mnemonic 1. John Carpenters Escape from New York 1. Gibson was intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad, didnt you sic It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot. The novels street and computer slang dialogue derives from the vocabulary of subcultures, particularly 1. Toronto dope dealers slang, or biker talk. Gibson heard the term flatlining in a bar around twenty years before writing Neuromancer and it stuck with him. Author Robert Stone, a master of a certain kind of paranoid fiction, was a primary influence on the novel. The term Screaming Fist was taken from the song of the same name by Toronto punk rock band The Viletones. Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the second series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to feature debut novels exclusively. Given a year to complete the work,5 Gibson undertook the actual writing out of blind animal panic at the obligation to write an entire novela feat which he felt he was four or five years away from. After viewing the first 2. Blade Runner 1. 98. Gibson had written a third of the novel, he figured Neuromancer was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume Id copied my visual texture from this astonishingly fine looking film. He re wrote the first two thirds of the book 1. He added the final sentence of the novel at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero 1. Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor. Plot summaryeditHenry Dorsett Case is a low level hustler in the dystopianunderworld of Chiba City, Japan. Once a talented computer hacker, Case was caught stealing from his employer. As punishment for his theft, Cases central nervous system was damaged with a mycotoxin, leaving him unable to access the global computer network in cyberspace, a virtual realitydataspace called the matrix. Case is unemployable, suicidal, and apparently at the top of the hit list of a drug lord named Wage. Film Noir Download Inner Workings ' title='Film Noir Download Inner Workings ' />Case is saved by Molly Millions, an augmented street samurai and mercenary for a shadowy ex military officer named Armitage, who offers to cure Case in exchange for his services as a hacker. Case jumps at the chance to regain his life as a console cowboy, but neither Case nor Molly knows what Armitage is really planning. Cases nervous system is repaired using new technology that Armitage offers the clinic as payment, but he soon learns from Armitage that sacs of the poison that first crippled him have been placed in his blood vessels as well. Armitage promises Case that if he completes his work in time, the sacs will be removed otherwise they will dissolve, disabling him again. He also has Cases pancreas replaced and new tissue grafted into his liver, leaving Case incapable of metabolizing cocaine or amphetamines and apparently ending his drug addiction. Cover of a Brazilian edition, depicting the character of razorgirl Molly Millions. Case develops a close personal relationship with Molly, who suggests that he begin looking into Armitages background. Meanwhile, Armitage assigns them their first job they must steal a ROM module that contains the saved consciousness of one of Cases mentors, legendary cyber cowboy Mc. Coy Pauley, nicknamed Dixie Flatline. Armitage needs Pauleys hacking expertise, and the ROM construct is stored in the corporate headquarters of media conglomerate SenseNet. A street gang named the Panther Moderns is hired to create a simulated terrorist attack on SenseNet. The diversion allows Molly to penetrate the building and steal Dixies ROM with Case unlocking the computer safeguards on the way in and out from within the matrix. Case and Molly continue to investigate Armitage, discovering his former identity of Colonel Willis Corto. Corto was a member of Operation Screaming Fist, which planned on infiltrating and disrupting Soviet computer systems from ultralight aircraft dropped over Russia. The Russian military had learned of the idea and installed defenses to render the attack impossible, but the military went ahead with Screaming Fist, with a new secret purpose of testing these Russian defenses. As the Operation team attacked a Soviet computer center, EMP weapons shut down their computers and flight systems, and Corto and his men were targeted by Soviet laser defenses. He and a few survivors commandeered a Soviet military helicopter and escaped over the heavily guarded Finnish border. Everyone was killed except Corto, who was seriously wounded and heavily mutilated by Finnish defense forces attacking the helicopter as it landed. After some months in the hospital, Corto was visited by a Government military official and then medically rebuilt to be able to provide what he came to realize was fake testimony, designed to mislead the public and protect the military officers who had covered up knowledge of the EMP weapons. After the trials, Corto snapped, killing the Government official who had contacted him and then disappearing into the criminal underworld. In Istanbul, the team recruits Peter Riviera, an artist, thief, and drug addict who is able to project detailed holographic illusions with the aid of sophisticated cybernetic implants. Although Riviera is a sociopath, Armitage coerces him into joining the team. The trail leads Case and Molly to Wintermute, a powerful artificial intelligence created by the Tessier Ashpool family. The Tessier Ashpools spend most of their inactive time in cryonic preservation in a labyrinthine mansion known as Villa Straylight, located at one end of Freeside, a cylindrical space habitat at L5, which functions primarily as a Las Vegas style space resort for the wealthy. Wintermutes nature is finally revealedit is one half of a super AI entity planned by the family, although its exact purpose is unknown. The Turing Law Code governing AIs bans the construction of such entities to get around this, it had to be built as two separate AIs. Wintermute housed in a computer mainframe in Berne, Switzerland was programmed by the Tessier Ashpools with a need to merge with its other half, Neuromancer whose physical mainframe is installed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Unable to achieve this merger on its own, Wintermute recruited Armitage and his team to help complete the goal. Case is tasked with entering cyberspace to pierce the Turing imposed software barriers using a powerful icebreaker program. At the same time, Riviera is to obtain the password to the Turing lock from Lady 3. Jane Marie France Tessier Ashpool, an unfrozen daughter clone and the current CEO of the familys corporation, Tessier Ashpool SA. Wintermute believes Riviera will pose an irresistible temptation to her, and that she will give him the password. The password must be spoken into an ornate computer terminal located in Villa Straylight, and entered simultaneously as Case pierces the software barriers in cyberspaceotherwise the Turing lock will remain intact. DA Y. 5. SUNDAY, MAY 21 2017. AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL www. ScreenDaily. com. Editorial 33 4 9706 8494. Advertising 44 7765 257 260. Amant, Beats move for Films. The box office winner, the Oscar Best Picture winner, and our favorite film of the year, all in one birthdayyear package. 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