Gibson didn’t even have a computer when he wrote this. In 1999, 15 years after Neuromancer, many viewers still had trouble understanding the concept of virtual reality, but Gibson was there much earlier. “All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and the corners he’d cut in Night City, and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void…” Yes, The Matrix. His life is seen through a drug haze, including the type of drugs that Dick was talking about Gibson just added cyberspace as a new one.
For our main character Case, it pulls at him like a drug. In Neuromancer, cyberspace is a place to visit while you are connected. And why? It’s not that the cyberpunk genre was totally new at the time but that Gibson’s style and the themes he selected play such a crucial role in hammering home a mood for the genre. Still, Gibson’s novel made a huge impact on science fiction. Delaney and comics like 2000 AD and the films Blade Runner (1982) and TRON (1982).
Gibson started using the word ‘cyberspace’ in Neuromancer, but the subgenre of cyberpunk has roots that go back much farther, to the books of Philip K. William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) is nowadays known as the novel that started or invented cyberpunk.
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