Happy birthday, Neuromancer!

William Gibson's groundbreaking novel was published 24 years ago, in paperback original no less.

It coined the word "cyberspace" and spawned the Cyberpunk science fiction movement.

It won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel and Philip K. Dick award for best original paperback science fiction novel. I found it a mix of conventional structures and archetypes in a very unconventional setting. I found it oddly optimistic in that Earth in the future still supports high technology and a space program with orbital habitats. There are more notes on it here:

http://wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html

It is also in production as a movie:

http://www.neuromancer.org/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037220/