When William Gibson's Neuromancer was published in 1984 it not only signalled the arrival of a breathtaking new talent, but it introduced the concept of cyberspace to a world still trapped in the technological stone age. He talks to John Mullan about the eureka moment when, never having seen a computer in reality, he realised that these new machines offered a new arena for science fiction, capable of replacing astral travel in the literary imagination.

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