"Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene. It permeated into our consciousness, our culture, our science, and our technology. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer showed us what we were capable of creating and what we were capable of destroying - and illuminated the dark corners of the path we were headed down." Today, we have this science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing our way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become our own. And yet, William Gibson's vision still manages to inspire the minds that will take us ever further into the future.
William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Pattern Recognition.
Biography
Science fiction owes an enormous debt to William Gibson, the cyberpunk pioneer who revolutionized the genre with his startling stories of tough, alienated loners adrift in a world of sinister high technology.
Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, and spent much of his youth in Virginia with his widowed mother. He grew up shy and bookish, discovering science fiction and the literature of the beats at a precociously early age. When he was 15, he was sent away to private school in Arizona, but he left without graduating when his mother died suddenly. He fled to Canada to avoid the draft and immersed himself in '60s counterculture. He married, moved to British Columbia, and enrolled in college, graduating in 1977 with a degree in English. Around this time he began to write in earnest, combining his lifelong love of science fiction and his newfound passion for the punk music evolving in New York and London.
In the early 1980s, Gibson met writer and punk musician John Shirley and sci-fi authors Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling. All three were blown away by the power and originality of Gibson's stories, and together the four men went on to forge a radical new literary movement called cyberpunk. In 1984, Gibson's groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, was published. Daring and revolutionary, it envisioned such techno-marvels as AI, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and multinational capitalism years before they became realities. Although it was not an immediate sensation, Neuromancer struck a chord with hardcore sci-fi fans who turned it into a word-of-mouth hit. Then it won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards (the Triple Crown of Science Fiction), catapulting Gibson into superstardom overnight.
Even if he had never written another word, Gibson's impact would be clearly seen in the works of such cutting-edge contemporary authors as Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Paul DiFilippo. But, as it is, Neuromancer was just the beginning -- the first book in an inspired trilogy that has come to be considered a benchmark in the history of the genre; and since then, Gibson has gone on to create even more visionary science fiction, including The Difference Engine, a steampunk classic co-authored with Bruce Sterling, and such imaginative post-9/11 cyber thrillers as Pattern Recognition and Spook Country .
1984在文学语境下是个寓意深刻的年份。那一年,“老大哥”无所不能的“电幕”还不见踪迹,但是一个世界范围内的互联网络正在崛起,一部横空出世的《神经漫游者》告诉人们“老大哥”的另一个可能性。 作者威廉•吉布森坦言,《神经漫游者》是创作“危机”时被逼出来的,科幻读...
评分http://blog.pixnet.net/post/AITNOG/175494 (載於《科科電子報》No. 43;2000年12月05日) William Ford Gibson,「電馭叛客」(Cyberpunk)科幻文學的創派宗師與代表人物。1948年03月17 日於美國南卡羅萊納州出生,19歲隨母移民加拿大多倫多市,於1972年偕妻子遷居溫哥華...
评分加注还是不加注,归根到底,就是,是否愿意把对文本的解释权完全交给读者。文本脱离了作者/译者,就成了读者的文本,每位读者的阅读体验都不会相同。我们只想提供完整的独立的文本,而不想告诉读者,该怎么理解这个词这个表达这句话。 关于加注,其实最担心的,是怕冒犯读者。...
评分我读的科幻小说,大都很擅长讲故事,高潮迭起,旁逸斜出,出人意料。但《神经漫游者》不,它的故事简单得令人发指:未来,一个自我意识觉醒了的人工智能,为了获得自由,雇佣一个黑客+一个女杀手+一个特种部队军官+一个意识操控专家,去偷一把钥匙,获得一个密码。真是没有丝毫...
评分我在想,1984年是个什么年代。 想象不出来。 因为神经漫游者这本书就像一个具有时间扭曲场效应的微电极,插在人的心里。 我的时间坐标系开始有点紊乱,唯一让我把这本书和现实联系起来的事件就是,PKD是1982年死的,而吉布森在三年后凭着神经漫游者拿了PKD奖。 PKD没看到过...
说实话,初读时我有些吃力,因为它没有传统小说那样明确的指引,更像是直接把你扔进了一台高速运转的超级计算机的内部。情节推进的方式非常碎片化,但正是这种看似混乱的结构,完美地模仿了信息过载和意识流动的体验。我感觉自己跟随着主角的神经末梢一起感受着每一个数据包的冲击。这本书的配乐感极强,那些关于街头帮派、地下黑客组织以及跨国公司的冲突,像极了一部充满暴力美学的动作片,只是武器换成了信息流和生物增强技术。我对其中对于“意识上传”和“数字永生”的探讨特别着迷。作者毫不留情地揭示了当技术允许人类超越肉体限制时,我们真正失去或获得了什么。它迫使你去质疑“生命”的定义,以及在那个世界里,一个没有身体的灵魂是否依然算是“人”。这是一种非常先锋和具有挑战性的阅读体验,但回报是巨大的认知冲击。
评分这部作品最震撼我的地方,是它对“边缘群体”的细腻刻画。那些在光鲜亮丽的摩天大楼阴影下苟延残喘的义体改造者、毒瘾缠身的数据贩子,以及那些试图通过技术手段对抗既得利益集团的黑客,他们的挣扎充满了悲剧性的浪漫。作者没有美化他们的生活,而是残酷地展示了在高度分化的未来社会中,技术进步如何加剧了阶级固化。主角的“被利用”感贯穿始终,他像一枚随时可能被抛弃的棋子,却又在关键时刻展现出惊人的韧性。这种对“工具人”命运的深刻反思,远超出了普通的科事情节。我特别欣赏作者在描绘城市景观时的那种冷漠和疏离感,高耸的建筑仿佛是巨大的墓碑,纪念着逝去的自然和人性。这本书读起来,像是在体验一场精心设计的、充满宿命感的冒险,结局的开放性更是让人回味无穷。
评分这部作品简直是一场感官的盛宴,读起来完全停不下来,仿佛被拽进了一个光怪陆离、霓虹闪烁的未来都市。作者对赛博空间的描绘达到了一个令人咋舌的高度,那种冰冷、数据流动的质感,透过文字清晰可见。我尤其喜欢那种介于高科技与底层挣扎之间的强烈对比,街道上弥漫着合成食物的气味和廉价电子元件的焦糊味,而网络世界的规则却由那些高高在上的巨型企业制定。故事的节奏把握得极好,主角的每一次潜入、每一次数据窃取,都伴随着心跳加速的紧张感。他的内心挣扎、他对自由的渴望,以及那种在虚拟与现实边界模糊不清状态下的生存哲学,都让人深思。这不仅仅是一部科幻小说,它更像是一部关于身份、关于人性在技术洪流中如何被重塑的哲学探讨。读完后,我感觉自己好像刚从一场漫长而迷幻的梦中醒来,那种挥之不去的电子回响和对未来社会结构的反思久久不能平息。我推荐给所有热爱那种黑暗、锐利、充满反乌托邦美学的读者。
评分这本书给我带来的冲击是多层次的,它不仅在概念上是革命性的,在情绪层面上也极具感染力。我很少读到一部作品能如此成功地将颓废、迷幻与尖锐的动作场面融为一体。作者构建的那个世界,充满了霓虹灯下的潮湿感和生锈的金属气息,你几乎能闻到空气中弥漫的臭氧味。我对那些对人工智能和高级计算机系统的拟人化处理印象深刻,它们不再是简单的工具,而是具有复杂动机和难以捉摸的意志的实体。故事线索的交织和解构,如同解开一个复杂的密码锁,每当一个真相浮出水面,随之而来的却是更深层次的迷惑。这部作品的阅读过程,与其说是享受故事,不如说是在进行一场高强度的智力搏击。它挑战了读者的既有认知,强迫我们将目光投向技术发展的阴暗面和那些被遗忘的角落。这是一部真正具有开创性意义的作品,值得反复揣摩。
评分这本书的文字功力令人叹为观止,它不是那种平铺直叙的叙事,而更像是一首首精心编排的、充满了节奏感和意象的诗歌,只是主题是关于计算机病毒和义体改造。作者的语言风格极其冷峻和精准,每一个形容词都像是经过了精确编程,直击要害。我花了很长时间去品味那些描述虚拟现实与肉体感官交织在一起的段落,那种“身体即是代码,代码即是灵魂”的设定,在我脑海里构建了一个全新的存在维度。角色之间的对话精妙绝伦,充满了俚语和只有圈内人才懂的黑话,这极大地增强了故事的真实感和沉浸感。尽管故事背景设定在遥远的未来,但其中探讨的关于控制、反抗以及个体在庞大系统面前的无力感,却与我们当下的社会困境有着惊人的共鸣。这本书的魅力在于它不提供简单的答案,而是把一个复杂、光怪陆离的世界彻底摊开在你面前,让你自己去寻找立足之地。
评分语言比霓虹灯简洁。人物的跃迁比光锋利。科幻小说也可以有好文笔!
评分语言比霓虹灯简洁。人物的跃迁比光锋利。科幻小说也可以有好文笔!
评分语言比霓虹灯简洁。人物的跃迁比光锋利。科幻小说也可以有好文笔!
评分语言比霓虹灯简洁。人物的跃迁比光锋利。科幻小说也可以有好文笔!
评分完全是在那之前人类不曾想到的伟大的想象。像梦境一样宏大。整个故事都太美了,笔触非常优美冷静,然而在很多残酷的描述之外,又有非常温暖的细节。Armitage的结局和整个故事的结尾看哭了,非常感动。
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