'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.'

Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: The infamous opening line to Neuromancer.

Not to mention that three megabytes of hot RAM is apparently valuable enough to kill for.

Cassette Futurism: The series features things as complex as human memories recorded on tape.

Brain Uploading: A key part of the plot since 'The Winter Market'.

The Alternet: The Matrix is probably one of the first, and the Trope Namer for Cyberspace.

Action Girlfriend: Molly is an Action Girl who has a very casual sexual relationship with Case in Neuromancer and also relates how she became Johnny's girlfriend after the events of 'Johnny Mnemonic.'.

The trilogy provides examples of the following tropes: Set in the same world are the short stories 'Burning Chrome', which introduced the recurring character 'the Finn' 'Johnny Mnemonic', the inspiration for the movie of the same name and 'New Rose Hotel', which was also adapted into a film by Abel Ferrara starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento. They're set in a world of Black-and-Gray Morality, after the Soviet collapse, but were published in a time when that was considered quite revolutionary. As is to be expected in 80s cyberpunk, the Sprawl (and, for that matter, Gibson's entire world) is decidedly dystopian in feel. Which is the nickname for the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, a massive city state on the East Coast of the United States. All three have fallen victim to Zeerust and Technology Marches On to some degree, but remain quite readable thanks to more than a few of Gibson's ideas becoming reality, or at least a styled version of it.Įach book stands alone, more or less, though there is a distinct overlap in characters and all three share the same setting - the Sprawl.

It was followed in 1986 by Count Zero, and the final book in the trilogy, Mona Lisa Overdrive was published in 1988. The first book, Neuromancer, was published in 1984 and widely acclaimed, winning the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K.

The Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson is considered to be one of the earliest examples of cyberpunk, and as such is a major Trope Maker for the genre.

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