Neuromancer

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . . Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful formeremployees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employerrecruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificialintelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. Witha dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer rankswith 1984 and Brave New World as one of the century's most potentvisions of the future.

American playwright and novelist, who won the Tony Award for Best Play for The Miracle Worker in 1959, which he later adapted for the film version in 1962.