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Author
Index
G |
William
Gibson |
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Title
Index
N |
Neuromancer |
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| Year |
1984 |
| Publisher |
Grafton
Books
(Collins
Publishing) |
| ISBN |
0586066454 |
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Synopsis
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Case
was burnt-out,
useless, suicidal
- his nervous
system grievously
maimed by a
wartime Russian
mycotoxin.
The top Japanese
experts in
nerve-splicing and
microbionics had
taken his money
and left him
crippled.
His days as a
software cowboy
seemed over.
Then Case met a
man who could cure
him. In
return, Case had
to do a job.
Had to.
Because bonded to
his artery walls
were tiny sacs of
the mycotoxin.
Tiny sacs, slowly
melting ... |
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Review
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Winner
of the Hugo Award,
the Nebula Award
and the Philip K
Dick Memorial
Award
'A debut novel
set for brain-stun
... streetwise
science fiction,
whose smart-tough
density of
character and
circumstances make
it one of the most
unusual and
involving
narratives to be
read in many an
artificially
induced blue moon'
The Times |
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Credit:
NASA
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Hanging
Out
The
pale blue
Earth
serves as
a backdrop
for
astronaut
Michael
Gernhardt,
who is
attached
to the
Shuttle
Endeavour's
robot arm
during a
spacewalk
on the
STS-69
mission in
1995.
Unlike
earlier
spacewalking
astronauts,
Gernhardt
was able
to use an
electronic
cuff
checklist,
a
prototype
developed
for the
assembly
of the
International
Space
Station. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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