William Gibson "Neuromancer" Signed Lettered Edition "Z" of 26 w/Genuine Printed Circuit Board [Very Fine]

Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications.”—The New York Times

Personally signed by William Gibson and Billy Norrby. Neuromancer is the 1984 novel that launched the cyberpunk movement within the science fiction literary genre.

SIGNED LETTERED EDITION "Z" OF 26. GENUINE PCB.

Suntup Press 2020. William Gibson "Neuromancer" Signed Lettered Edition. This is letter "Z" of only 26 produced.

The Lettered edition is limited to 26 copies and is a Bradel binding with a cloth spine. The front and back boards are genuine printed circuit boards, custom designed and produced for this edition. End-sheets are black metallic paper and the edition is printed offset on Mohawk Superfine. The book is housed in a clam-shell enclosure covered in black Japanese cloth.

Neuromancer is the 1984 science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.

Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up hacker hired for one last job, which brings him up against a powerful artificial intelligence.

Signed Lettered Edition

• Signed by William Gibson and Billy Norrby.
• Limited to 26 copies.
• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 272 Pages.
• Bradel binding with cloth spine.
• Front and back boards are genuine printed circuit boards, custom designed and produced for this edition.
• Introduction by William Gibson from the trade edition.
• Six full color illustrations by Billy Norrby.
• Printed offset on Mohawk Superfine.
• Two-color printing on section pages.
• Endsheets are black metallic paper.
• Housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in black Japanese cloth.
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The definitive cyberpunk novel, William Gibson's Neuromancer is a science-fiction masterpiece that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future. First published as a paperback original in 1984, several years before the Internet was commonplace, William Gibson showed us the Matrix — a world within the world, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace. Neuromancer is the story of Henry Dorsett Case, once the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence.

Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future — a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.

The novel is the first in history to win the Nebula, the Hugo, and the Philip K. Dick Award for paperback original, and the Mail & Guardian described this achievement as "the sci-fi writer's version of winning the Goncourt, Booker, and Pulitzer in the same year." By 2007, it had sold more than 6.7 million copies, and it remains one of the most honored works of science-fiction in recent history. Time magazine included it on their list of 100 Best English-Language Novels Written Since 1923, remarking, "There is no way to overstate how radical Neuromancer was when it first appeared."

Neuromancer ushers us into a dystopian world, exposing the dark side of a culture inextricably linked to computer technology with a keen prophecy that endures.

The signed limited edition of Neuromancer by William Gibson is presented in two states and is limited to two hundred and seventy-six copies. The text is set in Kelly Sans and printed offset. The edition measures 6” x 9” and includes six illustrations by Billy Norrby. Included is the author’s introduction from the trade edition, and both editions are signed by William Gibson and Billy Norrby.

William Gibson is credited with having coined the term “cyberspace” and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. He is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

Verified Customer Review

William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.

After expanding on the story in Neuromancer with two more novels (Count Zero in 1986, and Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk.

In the 1990s, Gibson composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which explored the sociological developments of near-future urban environments, postindustrial society, and late capitalism. Following the turn of the century and the events of 9/11, Gibson emerged with a string of increasingly realist novels—Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), and Zero History (2010)—set in a roughly contemporary world. These works saw his name reach mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. His most recent novels, The Peripheral (2014) and Agency (2020), returned to a more overt engagement with technology and recognizable science fiction themes.

In 1999, The Guardian described Gibson as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades", while The Sydney Morning Herald called him the "noir prophet" of cyberpunk. Throughout his career, Gibson has written more than 20 short stories and 12 critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers, and musicians. His work has been cited as influencing a variety of disciplines: academia, design, film, literature, music, cyberculture, and technology.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Billy Norrby is a Brooklyn based artist and painter. After graduating from The School of Visual Arts, Billy Norrby’s work has been featured in numerous galleries and museum shows worldwide; and in multiple annuals and publications such as Spectrum Magazine and 3×3 Magazine.

Reviews

Praise for Neuromancer

“Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications.”—The New York Times

“Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, decadent...an amazing virtuoso performance.”—The Washington Post

“Science fiction of exceptional texture and vision...Gibson opens up a new genre, with a finely crafted grittiness.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Epic in scale...shimmers like chrome in a desert sun.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A revolutionary novel.”—Publishers Weekly

“In with the ruthless violence, the hyperreality, the betrayal and death, is an unquenchable love of language. Gibson has that in common with Le Guin and with J. G. Ballard. Neuromancer sings to us as a collage of voices, a mixed chorus, some trustworthy and others malicious, some piped through masks.”—James Gleick

“Streetwise SF... one of the most unusual and involving narratives to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon.”—London Times

“Unforgettable...the richness of Gibson’s world is incredible.”—Chicago Sun-Times

FREE EXPEDITED SHIPPING WORLDWIDE

Suntup Editions

Suntup Editions is a publisher of carefully crafted limited edition books. We seek to continue the great tradition of fine bookmaking which was revived by William Morris and other celebrated pioneers of the fine press movement in the late 19th century.

Dissatisfied with the abundance of poorly made, mass-produced books of the time, Morris ushered in a book design renaissance and devoted his remaining years to recapturing the beauty of well-made books. It is these ideals which inspire and guide us in the editions we make.

We collaborate with artists, typographers, letterpress & offset printers, hand bookbinders and a host of talented craftspeople in the production of our editions. Many of our books are printed letterpress, and when letterpress proves unsuitable for the edition and its printing requirements, we print using high quality sheet-fed offset lithography, the respected standard of print production for the past several decades.

For us, fine press extends beyond the printing process. There is great beauty in a letterpress printed page and many of our editions are printed letterpress, but a fine edition is more than that. The great private presses which grew out of the English Arts and Crafts Movement sought to bring back the beauty inherent in medieval manuscripts and early printed books. Their focus was on improving upon the poor design of the day through careful attention to type, margin proportions, word and line spacing, and on eliminating cheap ink and poor-quality paper. They wished to restore aesthetic integrity to bookmaking.

Through our commitment to fine printing and design, we carefully consider all of these elements when making our books. We focus on readability and the reading experience, we print only on premium archival papers, we use the finest bookmaking materials and employ both modern bookbinding styles as well as traditional techniques which have not changed for centuries; all under the guiding light of exceptional design and production by acknowledged masters of their craft.

Ultimately, as we attempt to gain insight into the essence of the revival in fine bookmaking; what drove the early visionaries and those who followed in their footsteps, for us it’s about coming back to a simpler, purer time in our history when the art and craft of the book mattered.

https://suntup.press/about/