Dick, among others, but then goes to a wholly different level.

Gibson takes his influences from Escape from New York, Anthony Burgess and from Phillip K. Neuromancer has been called the definitive, benchmark novel of the cyberpunk sub-genre. Bladerunner was a distinctly cyberpunk vision, whereas Dick’s was dystopian but not necessarily cyberpunk. One reason why Bladerunner was as good was because Scott’s vision was so different from Dick’s. Bladerunner was of course patterned loosely after Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. I have written that Bladerunner was that most rare of accomplishments, a film that was as good or better than the book. William Gibson said that while writing Neuromancer he went to see the Ridley Scott film Bladerunner and thought that his ideas for the book were hopelessly lost, that everyone would naturally assume that he had taken all of his queues from the film. Dick’s writing and wondered what would happen if you extended his vision into the not too distant future, if you liked Bladerunner, if you liked The Matrix … and even if you like all the film and fiction that has made an attempt to be any of the above, you will love Neuromancer. Durante miles de años los hombres soñaron con pactar con el diablo. La mala fortuna lleva a Case a la ciudadela de un clan industrial que es dueño de un par de IA, los más costosos y peligrosos artefactos que puedan encontrarse. En este espeluznante y sombrío futuro, la mayor parte del este de Norteamérica es una única y gigantesca ciudad, casi toda Europa un basurero atómico, y Japón una jungla de neón, corruptora y brillante, donde una personalidad es la suma de sus vicios. Gibson hace plausible toda esta imaginería técnica, la jerga copiosa, la oblicua moral profesional, con verdadero ingenio y sin tediosas explicaciones. Conectan directamente sus cerebros y penetran en un mundo de sueños, donde el intercambio de información y el hielo protector aparecen en bloques tangibles y luminosos. Vaqueros como Case se ganan la vida hurtando información.

Gibson imagina un futuro invadido por microprocesadores, electrónicos y quirúrgicos, en el que la información es la primera mercancía.

Neuromante by William Gibson