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I've read this is a landmark book in science fiction, the first "cyberpunk" novel that coined the word cyberspace. Reading this you can see how influential it was--it's impossible to believe those that created the film The Matrix, for instance, didn't read this book. Given this was written in 1984, it's impressive for the way it envisioned the centrality of computers and the internet for the future.
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