Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the second series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to exclusively feature debut novels. Given a year to complete the work,[5] Gibson undertook the actual writing out of blind animal panic at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was four or five years away from.[1] After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner (1982), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he figured [Neuromancer] was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I’d copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film.[6] He re-wrote the first two-thirds of the book 12 times, feared losing the readers attention and was convinced that he would be permanently shamed following its publication; yet what resulted was seen as a major imaginative leap forward for a first-time novelist. weirdly inspirational for anyone struck w/ anxiety over a big creative project
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