Neuromancer

It's not bad when you can write your first novel and win the HUGO award for it straight up. That's what William Gibson did with this book in 1984 and as is often the case, has since become part of a trilogy of books known as the Sprawl.  And also, as usual the last two of which I don't possess. I may try the library for them, as this was a complex reading with much jargon. At least there was no time travel!  The main gist of this one is that an artificial intelligence is attempting to break out.  The way this was written you started barracking for the computer, as opposed to say the Skynet computer in Terminator, who was the bad guy.  Neuromancer is currently in Movie production and was supposed to come out this year but who knows when that will be.

I have one quote from the book. 

Something only vaguely like a human face filled the screens, its features stretched across asymmetrical expanses of bone like some obscene Mercator projection.  

Now I studied Mercator projections about 44 yar ago and I never expected it would get some weird reference in a SciFi novel.  The projection is a way of showing a round object (the earth) on a flat surface (the map).  The features of a surface (a face) can be shown by contouring which maybe what he is trying to say.  Is this the kind of in depth that happens at a book club?  Only if cartographers are present.