Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time.Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s, Gibson's vision has become a touchstone - his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future.Lowlife characters, ghosts and hallucinations haunt the malls and plazas of an intensely realized holographic world, a name-brand society, with cloned Ninja bodyguards, retro fashions, stunning ideas.Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru, prophet and voice of the new cybernetic world order and virtual reality.