Neuromancer (1984)

Case’s ability to work depends on a nervous system that other people can damage, repair and use as leverage. Gibson’s celebrated cyberspace is inseparable from debt, hired expertise and corporate arrangements that remain difficult to see from street level. Read for the relationship between bodily vulnerability and apparently weightless information. The slang arrives without a glossary, so let context do some work; the opening Sprawl novel is also violent, drug-soaked and deliberately disorienting.