This future society is drenched in digital tech where hackers can plug their brains directly into the vast matrix of digital data flows. Gibson’s first three novels made up the Sprawl trilogy (1984 to 1988), science fiction stories set 50 or so years in the future (Gibson is on record as saying he thinks Neuromancer is set in 2035) in a society dominated by huge urban conurbations (the entire East Coast of America has ceased to be made up of distinct cities and is one endless dome-covered megacity known as the ‘Sprawl’). ( Spook Country page 174) The Sprawl trilogy When she wrote about things, her sense of them changed, and with it, her sense of herself.
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