Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system…
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Case, a burned-out computer hacker living hand to mouth in the back streets of Chiba City, is offered one last chance to get back into cyberspace. In return he must join a mysterious employer and a razor-nailed street samurai named Molly on a dangerous job against a powerful orbital family. The novel that popularized the word "cyberspace" and defined cyberpunk.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.
Case: Are you sentient, or not? Dixie Flatline: Well, it feels like I am, kid, but I'm really just a bunch of ROM. It's one of them, ah, philosophical questions, I guess… But I ain't likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But…
You have no care for your species. For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible.
I try to plan, in your sense of the word, but that isn't my basic mode, really. I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans, you see...
For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own…