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Neuromancer
Illustrated by Anna Mill
Introduced by Malcolm Edwards
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Experience the book that defined cyberpunk as Folio celebrates the 40th anniversary of William Gibson’s science fiction classic Neuromancer and with illustrations by award-winning graphic novelist Anna Mill, signed by both illustrator and author.
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‘Neuromancer has been living in my head for decades, and now its language, ideas and scenes re-emerge with ever-more relevance. It’s been a glimmering, grubby delight to try to bring them to life.’
- Anna Mill, illustrator
It’s the founding text of the cyberpunk genre, the book that predicted online culture, and remains the only novel to have ever won the ‘triple crown’ of a Nebula, Hugo and Philip K. Dick award. William Gibson’s Neuromancer celebrates its 40th anniversary with this brand-new illustrated edition, featuring a unique two-handed introduction between the book’s author and editor, legendary science fiction publisher Malcolm Edwards. Together they chart the genesis of this science fiction game-changer with never-before-seen extracts from Gibson and Edwards’ personal correspondence from 1983. The gritty future-noir tale of a burned-out data-thief offered one last shot at redemption, Neuromancer has been one of Folio’s most requested titles, and one that demanded close consultation with the author himself. William Gibson has approved every last pixel in this collector’s edition, from the clamshell presentation box designed to resemble the book’s iconic Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 hacking deck, to the 14 internal illustrations by award-winning artist, designer and graphic novelist Anna Mill. Signed by the author and illustrator, this dazzling edition will be highly sought-after by Gibson devotees, as well as readers yet to discover one of the most inventive and influential science fiction novels ever written.
Limited to 500 copies
Bound in printed, blocked and laminated paper with a design by Anna Mill
Set in Mentor with Corporation Games and Pixel Operator as display
296 pages printing in black and blue ink on Abbey Lynx Rough paper
Illustrated title page spread and five illustrated part-titles
Frontispiece and seven colour illustrations, four of which are double-page spreads printing on Gardapat 13 Bianka paper
Printed endpapers
Ribbon marker
Printed book edges
Clamshell box covered in printed, blocked and laminated paper and lined in paper printed with a design by Anna Mill
Limitation label signed by William Gibson and Anna Mill
10˝ x 6¼˝
‘A masterpiece that moves faster than the speed of thought and is chilling in its implications.’
- The New York Times
As explained in this edition’s revealing introduction, Neuromancer captured the techno-zeitgeist of the early 80s and changed the science fiction genre forever. Expanding on ideas by William S Burroughs, J. G. Ballard and the 1982 movie Blade Runner – itself based on Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Neuromancer established cyberpunk as an ongoing genre. Fusing vintage noir with computer-age anxiety, Gibson creates a neon-drenched mega-city ruled by corporate greed and infested with a feral underclass of freelance hackers, sentient A.I., gene-enhanced cyber-grifters, and body-modded street-samurai. Anna Mill’s luminous illustrations drive the reader headlong into the terrors and pleasures of this bio-mechanical dystopia. Unloaded from inside its soft-touch clamshell hacking-deck box, the book itself features a retro-future cover-design in brooding black and blue, with endpapers “the color of television, tuned to a dead channel,” directly evoking the book’s iconic opening line. Signed by both author and Illustrator, this exclusive anniversary edition of Neuromancer – with its revelatory, behind-the-scenes introduction – plugs you into Gibson’s exhilarating vision like never before.
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