Neuromancer by William Gibson

Details:

Published in 1984 by Ace Books.

I read it in 2011.

Awards:

It was the first book to win the Science Fiction "Triple Crown":

The Nebula Award

The Philip K. Dick Award

The Hugo Award

From the Publisher:

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....

First Line:

The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel.

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