A deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering cyberpunk novel that predicted our obsession with
the Internet-part of Penguin Galaxy a collectible series of six sci-fi fantasy classics
featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman Winner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50
Covers competition Before the Internet was commonplace William Gibson showed us the Matrix-a
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Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix until an ex-employer crippled his nervous
system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably
powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun he's
ready for the silicon-quick bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre
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Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Neuromancer by William Gibson For more than seventy
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