Neuromancer · 1984
Case was the best console cowboy in the business, until his employers burned out his nervous system as punishment for stealing from them. Now a shadowy patron offers to make him whole again, in exchange for one last, near-suicidal hack. The novel that coined the word cyberspace and set the shape of everything cyberpunk.
Count Zero · 1986
Three lives drift toward one another: a mercenary hired to smuggle out a defecting scientist, an art dealer chasing an uncanny maker of boxes, and a teenage hacker who nearly dies at his deck. Meanwhile, something in the matrix has begun to behave like a god. A cooler, stranger return to the world of Neuromancer.
