Man-machine interfaces. Hive minds. Personality transformations. Gibson weaves a fast-paced story, set in a world whose vastness can only be glimpsed through scraps of information and scattered references throughout the text.

It demands your attention as the author plunges you headlong into the world of the Sprawl with no guiding hand at your side.

Definitely not a light read, but a thoroughly enjoyable one nonetheless.

There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporarily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again.

The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.