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I’d heard the line a hundred times before I ever opened the book. “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a …

The sky above the port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. That sentence has been haunting readers for four decades. It’s …

I've been watching the self-driving car story unfold for over a decade now, and there's something about the pattern that's emerged. Not the misses themselves — …

Widely regarded as a defining work of the cyberpunk genre, Neuromancer has carried a curse that most books would kill for—or maybe die from. Considered a …

You've heard it a hundred times: Neuromancer predicted the internet. The novel that gave us cyberspace, the matrix, and a whole vocabulary for digital life supposedly saw the …

Is Neuromancer getting a show? After decades of false starts—failed film attempts, a video game adaptation that went nowhere, and a Tim Miller–helmed project that stalled …

I was about 50 pages in and I had no idea what “simstim” meant. I’d reread sentences three times and still couldn’t picture what was happening. …

I fell into a legal rabbit hole recently, and it starts with a question: if a car with nobody driving hits something, who pays? The old …