The foundational cyberpunk trilogy set in a near-future of corporate power, artificial intelligence, and cyberspace, beginning with Neuromancer's hacker Case and expanding through multiple perspectives. The series establishes the aesthetic and themes of cyberpunk—tech noir, AI consciousness, the commodification of the body—while following characters navigating a world of yakuza, corporate warfare, and the mysterious constructs dwelling in the matrix.
Washed-up hacker Case is offered a chance to have the neural damage that ended his career repaired 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.'
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.
The third Sprawl novel weaves together four storylines involving a young woman sheltered from her criminal past, a simstim star targeted for abduction, a data construct of a deceased hacker, and a teenager raised in the criminal underworld, all converging around a mysterious object and the aloof Maas-Neotek construct. The novel brings Gibson's Sprawl trilogy to a dreamlike, interconnected conclusion. Dense with style and cyberpunk mythology.