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Sprawl

Content Ratings

Mild Romance

Brief romantic and sexual encounters are present across storylines but handled with the same terse, non-explicit style characteristic of Gibson's prose.

Moderate Themes

Themes of corporate omnipotence, surveillance, bodily commodification, and the emergence of digital entities resembling gods in the matrix are sustained throughout.

Moderate Violence

Corporate-sponsored violence, assassinations, and combat involving implanted weapons are depicted in the novel's thriller-paced action sequences; violence is routine and consequential.

Synopsis

Three separate storylines converge in Gibson's second Sprawl novel: a young hacker who survives an impossible situation, a corporate art dealer hired to locate a missing researcher, and a mercenary protecting a woman fleeing a powerful corporation. The novel deepens the world of Neuromancer with new perspectives on corporate power, artificial intelligence, and voodoo mythology in cyberspace. Richer and more structurally complex than its predecessor.