Neuromancer

Sprawl

Content Ratings

Moderate Romance

Case and Molly have an ongoing sexual relationship described with moderate explicitness; their physical encounters are depicted concisely but clearly as part of the noir-inflected narrative.

Moderate Themes

Themes of addiction, bodily modification as commodity, corporate control of human experience, and the dissolution of identity in a post-human world are sustained throughout the novel.

Moderate Violence

Violence is frequent and matter-of-fact: characters are killed, Molly engages in brutal combat, and the corporate criminal underworld operates with casual lethality; violence fits the genre's hardboiled aesthetic.

Synopsis

Washed-up hacker Case is offered a chance to have the neural damage that ended his career repairedâ€”in exchange for running one last dangerous job in cyberspace for a mysterious employer. Navigating a neon-soaked corporate dystopia of crime, espionage, and artificial intelligence, Case and a mercenary called Molly uncover a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of digital power. The novel that defined cyberpunk and coined the term 'cyberspace.'