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Leo Walsh
May 23, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Forgot how good Gibson is. And this book is white-knuckled cool. From the opening line, "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." To the closing line [not given since it includes a sort of spoiler].

Great pacing. And excellent plot the traces Case, a burnt out hacker with brain damage that makes it impossible to ply his trade, from the drug-infested streets of a future Japan to a four-star hotel in the United States -- AKA the Sprawl.

In between, you get a cool
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Kosh Koshover
Nov 19, 2015 rated it it was ok
i had a hard time staying engaged with the book but very much respect the terminology and genre he created so long ago.
Lauren
Apr 04, 2008 marked it as to-read
Jacob
Jan 22, 2023 rated it it was ok
Clarisa Doval
Nov 24, 2008 rated it did not like it
Karen
Feb 26, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: science-fiction
K. G.  Whitehurst
Jun 07, 2009 marked it as to-read
Carol
Feb 12, 2019 rated it really liked it
SarahC
Jul 09, 2009 rated it did not like it
Gaijinmama
Oct 23, 2009 marked it as to-read
Cory Day
Feb 18, 2010 marked it as to-read
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A
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Lee-Ann
Sep 22, 2011 marked it as to-read
Jess
Mar 04, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: owned, read-in-2012
Seneca
Dec 25, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: sci-fi
Jeska Duman
Sep 05, 2013 marked it as to-read
Elaine Copeland
Feb 16, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Shanea
Nov 24, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Lindsay
Apr 05, 2015 rated it liked it
Patricia Ng
Mar 05, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Y_M_A
Oct 09, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: dystopia
Julie
Mar 16, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Carol
Feb 12, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
rachel
Jun 02, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2019, read-with-will
Jamie Jo
Jun 29, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Felisa
Dec 23, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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