by William Gibson · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140157727
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In the near future, Chevette, a bicycle messenger, steals a pair of sunglasses containing valuable and dangerous information. Berry Rydell, an ex-cop turned security guard, is hired to retrieve them. Both become embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to transform San Francisco. This cyberpunk science fiction novel explores themes of technology, culture, and morality in a postmodern world.
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
