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.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
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˝
JACK INTO THE MATRIX
‘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.
BIOGRAPHIES
About William Gibson
William Gibson is an enormously influential science fiction author who revitalised the genre with his pioneering cyberpunk work of the 1980s and beyond. After a childhood in the United States he became deeply immersed in the 60s counterculture and moved to Canada to avoid being drafted to Vietnam; he has lived in Vancouver for over 50 years. Gibson began writing while a mature student at the University of British Columbia and had a breakthrough with ‘Burning Chrome’, a story published in 1982 in which he coined the term ‘cyberspace’. Although best known for near-future fiction such as Neuromancer (1984, Folio 2025), Gibson has also written alternative history, more realist fiction and graphic novels. Widely regarded as a visionary or ‘noir prophet’ of the digital age, Gibson has been acclaimed both within and beyond science fiction circles, winning a number of awards including the unprecedented ‘triple crown’ – Nebula, Hugo and Philip K. Dick awards – for a single novel, Neuromancer.
About Anna Mill
Anna Mill is an architecturally trained designer, artist and author from London. Her work traverses a territory from traditional hand-drawn perspective to virtual reality. As part of Mill+Jones, she makes comics speculating on possible futures for people, technology and the planet. Their dystopian graphic novel Square Eyes (2018) won the 2019 World Illustration Awards.
About Malcolm Edwards
Malcolm Edwards is a science fiction editor and critic. Educated at Cambridge University and formerly CEO of Orion Publishing, he launched the ‘SF Masterworks’ series under Gollancz, a part of the Orion Publishing Group.
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Average Score for 13 Review(s)
Everything is great except the signature is not on the book itself but a card that was glued to the book.
Review by
Repeat Buyer
on 12th October 2024
did not apperciat very high price and 40EUR of shipment to Europe
Review by
Cristian P.
on 4th October 2024
I really wish Folio took more time to really advertise how much investment it takes to create the little details such as the box, and the illustrations. The product is beautiful and absolute worth the money if you understand the attention to details put into creating it. Yes it is not leather, but leather products can be misleading. This book is well worth its money.
Review by
MR WILLY HUYNH
on 2nd October 2024
Great edition!
Review by
David
on 24th September 2024
This has pride of place on my book shelf. The Ono-Sendai cover slip is excellent. The print quality is superb.
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