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Content levels
ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentMild
LanguageModerate
Trigger warnings
ViolenceBody HorrorAmnesiaManipulation
Positive tags
MysteryHigh AngstAdventure
Tropes
CyberpunkCorporate EspionageHidden IdentityAI EntitiesUrban DystopiaBody ModificationTech NoirDefection Plot
Themes
Corporate GreedIdentityTechnology and HumanityConsciousnessCommodification of the BodyAI SentienceInformation as Currency
Synopsis
William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human....
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CyberpunkTechno-ThrillerDystopianHard Science Fiction