William Ford Gibson
American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.
The straight world didn't end. The straight world and the other world had bled into one another and produced the world that we live in today.
“You have no idea,” said Ralfi, suddenly sounding very tired, “the depths of shit you have just gotten yourself into.”
Stim was a medium she ordinarily avoided, something in her personality conflicting with the required degree of passivity.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
Wintermute was hive mind, decision maker, effecting change in the world outside. Neuromancer was personality. Neuromancer was immortality. Marie-France must have built something into Wintermute, the compulsion that had driven the thing to free itself, to unite with Neuromancer.