William Gibson - Neuromancer

There's a great deal of science here, in the form of applied future technology, but it's always presented as part of a fast-moving adventure story that will sweep you along with its tension and surprises. The story is extremely visual, too: Gibson has a knack for imagining scenes so well that you may ind yourself seeing this novel much as you'd see a movie like Bladerunner. The effect is gripping, and chilling at times, and always emotionally moving. Gibson's characters come to life and make us feel for them and fear for them.

There will be more Ace Science Fiction Specials coming soon, each one as unusual as this one. Besides Neuromancer, three have already been published: The Wild Shore By Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Eyes

by Lucius Shepard, and Palimpsests by Carter Scholz and Glenn Harcourt. I hope you'll look for them all.