Is there an audiobook of Neuromancer?

Yes. Neuromancer has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Robertson Dean.

How long is the Neuromancer audiobook?

The Neuromancer audiobook runs 10 hr 31 min.

Is Neuromancer on Kindle Unlimited?

No. Neuromancer was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 24, 2026.

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Our score

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJuly 2000

Genres

Fiction Science Fiction

Themes

Identity and the body once cyberspace offers an escape from itCorporate power outpacing governmentWhat it costs to be a tool for something smarter than youAddiction to a skill more than to any substance

Neuromancer

Name: Neuromancer
Price: 12.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: William Gibson

William Gibson

William Gibson's 1984 novel invented cyberpunk's visual language in one book: a burnt-out hacker, a mirror-eyed mercenary, and a heist aimed at an AI too powerful for either of them to fully understand.

The Review

Our take

Case used to be the best data-thief working the matrix, until the people he stole from crippled his nervous system as punishment and locked him out of cyberspace for good. That's where Gibson picks him up: strung out in Chiba City, burning through what's left of a life built around a skill he can no longer use, until a stranger offers to fix his nerves in exchange for one more run. It's a straightforward noir setup, damaged specialist pulled back in for a last job, and Gibson trusts it completely, spending almost no time explaining the world before dropping you straight into it.

Worth flagging up front: this book coined the term cyberspace and then wrote it in language dense enough to make you work for the picture. Gibson doesn't pause to define his tech; you learn what the matrix is the way Case does, by moving through it, and the prose runs fast and elliptical enough that a first read can feel like eavesdropping on a conversation that started before you arrived. Readers coming to this from decades of movies and games it inspired should expect the source to be stranger and more oblique than the imitators.

What holds the whole thing together is Molly, the razor-fingered street-samurai riding shotgun on Case's run, and the two of them make one of the genre's great damaged-professional pairings, all business and buried want. The heist itself, once it kicks into gear, aims at something bigger than either of them realizes: an artificial intelligence with plans of its own, boxed in by law and hardware, working the humans around it like tools. Gibson lets that AI's motive stay genuinely alien rather than explaining it into something comfortable, and the book is better for the restraint.

Why you should read

Readers who want cyberpunk's original text, not just its descendants
Fans of noir plotting dropped into speculative worlds
Anyone drawn to morally gray hacker-and-mercenary duos
Readers comfortable doing some interpretive work as they go

What to expect

Dense, elliptical prose that assumes you'll catch up
A fast, noir-inflected heist plot
Minimal exposition about the world's technology
An alien, unexplained artificial intelligence as the real antagonist

The plot occasionally moves faster than the prose can track cleanly, and some of the dialogue reads more like attitude than character. It's a fair cost for what this book actually did: built the visual grammar that cyberpunk has run on for four decades, the neon-and-rain aesthetic, the cowboy-jacked-into-the-net figure, the sense that corporations own more of the future than governments do. Read now, it's less a prediction of the internet than a mood you can still feel running underneath everything it influenced.

Reviewed by Rowan · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of Neuromancer?: Yes. Neuromancer has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Robertson Dean.
Listen to Neuromancer free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the Neuromancer audiobook?: The Neuromancer audiobook runs 10 hr 31 min.
Is Neuromancer on Kindle Unlimited?: No. Neuromancer was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 24, 2026.
How much does Neuromancer cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $12.99, Paperback $17.00, Hardcover $27.91. Prices as of August 25, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.

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What is Neuromancer about?: Case used to be the best data-thief working the matrix, until the people he stole from crippled his nervous system as punishment and locked him out of cyberspace for good. That's where Gibson picks him up: strung out in Chiba City, burning through what's left of a life built around a skill he can…
Is Neuromancer worth reading?: We scored Neuromancer 4.4 out of 5. William Gibson's 1984 novel invented cyberpunk's visual language in one book: a burnt-out hacker, a mirror-eyed mercenary, and a heist aimed at an AI too powerful for either of them to fully understand.