I uploaded this book to the internet back in the 90's. The cassettes were almost done. These days I swear everyone out there is using that original upload copy. I can hear the same audio issues as my original. Gives my heart a nice warm feeling.
sir i would like to thank you for sharing this with us, if it wasnt for you, i wouldnt have read the sprawl trilogy. If i knew your name, i would chant it in jubilee
I listened through this audiobook for the first time when I rented the cassettes from the library. It was so good, I rented it again about 6 months later for another listen. The library got rid of all their cassette audiobooks so I am glad you posted this. It is so much better in his voice, I can feel the emotion he has in his own story. Cassettes were great for audio books because your spot was always saved and no scratches. The only downside to the cassette was the magnetic tape being sensitive and the warping of the cassette in the heat.
As compared to what? Sure, a CD will not remember your spot, but we haven't had to use those either for quite some time. The player on my phone remembers my spot just fine.
@@esbenm6544the level of focus you have on your phones reading of an audiobook is abysmal compared to something like a cassette which was significantly less mobile and required you to actually sit down and be invested.
The narration is so much better in delivery than the premium audible version! I started listening to this book on audible but the delivery was so dry, the exciting sequences were a chore to listen to.
I wonder how many people have listened to this without noticing or seeing in the description that this is an abridged narration. Big sections of beautiful descriptions and world building missing.
Damn right, brother! 👍 Oh yeah, here's my last favourite YT find, the album by *Slift: Ummon* - If you like Psychedelic Prog-Metal / Rock that sounds like some kinda alternate History mid 70s Hendrix, with his electric guitar burning up in the high speed white-burn frost of an alien planet.......It totally blew me away when I first found it :) ruclips.net/video/KJoLGNu5BFY/видео.html
30,000 views and not even 500 likes...ingrates. Thanks @Pietro Vismara , I appreciate it. p.s. Library VHS Rips linked you on his copy, says yours is better quality and directs people here
Having played and fallen in love with Shadowrun for decades before finding this, I feel like I'm discovering my ancestry. I'm loving all the references and concepts that are sounding just familiar enough. Can't wait to continue exploring the pillar of this awesome genre. Thanks for posting! 👏🏾👍🏾
Hey, if you like Shadowrun, you might like The Sprawl! It's a roleplaying game that borrowed heavily from Neuromancer (and isn't afraid to admit it), and it's incredibly fun. Very gritty and dark.
Thanks for posting. There's something so perfect about the author reading his own book. I've listened to this on my ipod over a dozen times. So glad to have an edition to listen to here.
William reads the book like he’s a character out of the book, like he has the neural virus Case had along with a broken nose. I prefer his reading to any other well-spoken actor.
See that accent reminds me of the south and in my head I pictured case as someone from the south. Idk it’s literally what I imagined his voice was like in my head
Wow didn't know there was audio.. reading this at the moment very slow I think 300 pages will take me at least half a year ... but man am I enjoying this. It's so dark, so human but wasted in every way, couldn't barely read this shit when I was on a week long trip with my tent and my cat chilling in the woods nearby where I live, ' cause of the raw reality this story is set place in. Two pages beyond the most mezmerizing event yet, p 84: " a Small man, Japanese, enourmously polite ( ... ) Gently, almost apologetically ( ... ) staring into the calm brown eyes of death " Reading this, I am totally there in the moment, feeling a bit like " what would I do, when such a highly evolved Japanese program hits my center? Have a chat I guess, ask him if he has had a pleasant journey and such, and hand over the head. William, boy you can write. The less words you use, the more they mean in relation to the story. Thanx so much !
@@zoelio999 ruclips.net/video/HAmurh7HqWI/видео.html It's noisy for todays standards, because it's a cassette recording - a bit of 80s nostalgia included :)
I really really wish that I could get into this story but I just can't. I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm an English major, and writing is like literally my only talent. There are stories out there that I absolutely adore, and love to read and watch again and again and again, but I find that the vast majority of stories I just really couldn't care less about. I don't know what it is, but something really just has to hook me in, and after listening to the first 11 minutes of this, I honestly found myself tuning out and just thinking about stories that I like better. I wish I could appriciate these kinds of stories more like other people clearly do.
Its an aquired taste i believe, Ive picked it up, set it down part way, started at the begining again, and I appreciated it more after learning what was trying to be said... with all the technobable its hard to follow what exactly is going on. Its not cool technobable either, now that we have the internet our minds tune out the blah blah blah stuff.
lol engl majors having trouble with the book unite! For me it's the audiobook reading ( The reading of some sentences aren't right/ run-ony, there's a petulant edginess to some of case's lines [and studying Japanese, some of his pronunciations are hilariously jarring] ) and the ever present bgm that should never ever ever ever rear its head beyond the first minute of a audiobook. What has happened twice now in just this week is that I try to listen to it but then I start to space out / get lost with how abrupt the pacing is and now I've lost track of everything, great.
Just wondering... why try to push yourself through a book especially one thats made just for entertainment...why not just go do something u actually enjoy?
Ah! Ez... it's a very polarizing way of being ...forced to perceive certain thresholds. Hyperkinetic abundant visual , cyberpunk, saturations... Hey, at least you gave it a go! I try make everyone read it. XD ...which Never works! No offense or dis but how do you like... Maniac McGee? Polar opposite style, would you say? ...4juxtaposition... *(that's a tough one for me, for instance.) ^ ~ JAMWF!Co
Thanks for uploading! Can I ask where you were able to find this? There was only a low quality version available from BearCave this last decade, and I was worried that the original version read by William Gibson himself would be lost forever. Thanks for uploading and helping to preserve this important work. I will pass this on to other fans.
I found it with torrents. You can find it too on rutracker dot org. I think it's probably the only available high quality version you could find on the web.
Does this have a Short Story on it(at the end) I used to have this on cassette long ago and been looking for a short story I am sure is Gibsons and was on a cassette that I listened to I guess 25 years ago.
God, this shit is awesome. I've always liked cyberpunk as a genre, but I feel like I wasn't truly understanding it until I dug into the roots of what 'cyberpunk' is. This is one of the novels that's finally giving me the full round trip. I need to finish both this and Snow Crash at some point.
I prefer the other narrator by far, who truly made this novel among the best. This one will be good if I'm suffering from insomnia [LoL]., I'm sure William will get a laugh out of that. Great pick on the narrator.
Gibson... reads like a middle school student who barely knows the material. Speaking and reading is a skill... being a good writer doesn't make you a good speaker... That said, if you like it more power to you.
Honestly I much prefer this one the audio book version i heard on audible the readers pacing felt very un concerned with what he was reading but at the same time would try to voice the female charecters when he had a naturally super deep voice and it was just cringe imo
oddly enough William Gibson's first published short story "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" from 1977 was about a guy who couldn't get to sleep without playing a tape of someone's experience of making himself go to sleep, like the clips in the 1995 film Strange Days, and getting over an old relationship.
the writing is a masterpiece, but he has to be one of the worst audio book speakers ever. There is another version read by Arthur Addison, which I found much more enjoyable to listen to.
Peripheral was good, but they'll never get his beat-generation prose style in a TV series or movie. Plus, in this amazing example, you get that delightful southern accent throwing ultra-tech at you. I hear this voice any time I read him now.
What a perfect example of how rarely, if ever, the author them self should do a narration/audiobook. There are exceptions of course, but this narration is just plain awful.
it's oddly enough the same sort of accent the other cyberpunk artists, Bruce Sterling and Lana Wachowski before her transition to female, I wondered if it was these people with these accents were the best creators of original cyberpunk works.
Fan of the book, not a huge fan of his reading of it though unfortunately. He just doesn't have the right tone or pace to keep it engaging. He narrates with a sort of sing-songy up-and-down tone repetition which makes it difficult to concentrate on the content of the actual words, which I think is honestly a common issue with a lot of novice narrators. The best audiobooks are the ones that are read like you're telling a close group of friends a story that really happened to you and not like you're standing at the lectern in a company auditorium orating the updated marketing schedule and sales quotas for the next quarter.
I understand that this is an original recording from many years ago....but it's terrible. Imagine if Fifty Shades of Grey was read by Disney's Goofy. The tone, tenor, and various other qualities of this narrator's voice make it un-listenable.
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I uploaded this book to the internet back in the 90's. The cassettes were almost done. These days I swear everyone out there is using that original upload copy. I can hear the same audio issues as my original. Gives my heart a nice warm feeling.
Thank you so much for your contribution! 📼📖
It's amazing how small actions can have a great impact in the future.
legend
I always loved this version, there’s something about his accent that reminds me of Atlanta where I’m from
sir i would like to thank you for sharing this with us, if it wasnt for you, i wouldnt have read the sprawl trilogy. If i knew your name, i would chant it in jubilee
The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.
i fucking love that line
So blue then?
My other favorite: "I'm the Finn said the Finn and made a warning face at Case." :)
@@tezzingtonsir28 not really. Before digital everything. More like grey fuzzy blur
@@LukeMartinVideohe must be young
I listened through this audiobook for the first time when I rented the cassettes from the library. It was so good, I rented it again about 6 months later for another listen. The library got rid of all their cassette audiobooks so I am glad you posted this. It is so much better in his voice, I can feel the emotion he has in his own story. Cassettes were great for audio books because your spot was always saved and no scratches. The only downside to the cassette was the magnetic tape being sensitive and the warping of the cassette in the heat.
As compared to what? Sure, a CD will not remember your spot, but we haven't had to use those either for quite some time. The player on my phone remembers my spot just fine.
@@esbenm6544the level of focus you have on your phones reading of an audiobook is abysmal compared to something like a cassette which was significantly less mobile and required you to actually sit down and be invested.
cd's could remember your spot, too.
It's worth the abridged status since it's gibson himself narrating so you get the exact feel he intended in each scene
thank you so much for sharing this. such a blast hearing an author reading his own work with this passion. the sound effects are too on point btw.
The narration is so much better in delivery than the premium audible version! I started listening to this book on audible but the delivery was so dry, the exciting sequences were a chore to listen to.
William Gibson's narration has all the charm of television tuned to a dead channel
Yep, they say authors can never read there own work and it is so true.
Harold pinter was awful in his own plays too.
I have no mouth and I must scream read by Harlan Ellison is amazing so I disagree lol
@@JJamba-jinxx
ok then.
Sorry about your mouth.
@@JJamba-jinxx Harlan Ellison is one of a kind though
He sounds like Forrest Gump. On drugs.
I wonder how many people have listened to this without noticing or seeing in the description that this is an abridged narration.
Big sections of beautiful descriptions and world building missing.
This is one of those discoveries that almost makes the thousands of hours of life wasted on the internet worth it.
Edit: thousands
Adam Frisoli epic comment! Almost needs to be reused... Haha
Preach!
If you enjoyed it, it wasn't wasted.
If you didn't enjoy it, but it brought you value, it wasn't wasted.
Damn right, brother! 👍
Oh yeah, here's my last favourite YT find, the album by *Slift: Ummon*
- If you like Psychedelic Prog-Metal / Rock that sounds like some kinda alternate History mid 70s Hendrix,
with his electric guitar burning up in the high speed white-burn frost of an alien planet.......It totally blew me away when I first found it :)
ruclips.net/video/KJoLGNu5BFY/видео.html
💯…doesn’t get much better than this as far as audiobooks go. 🦌🦌🦌
Terrific audio quality. Beyond terrific book ;-) Thanks!
This is so cool, he's fun to listen to, not a lot of authors are. Thank You!
I also love the background synth, it's perfect!
Yes the soundtrack really complements well the novel's atmosphere. Even the audiotape audio artifacts make it sound more authentic.
@@pietrovismara1698 Makes me wanna go listen to some Front 242 and play with my synth, third installment tonight. Later, thanks!
30,000 views and not even 500 likes...ingrates.
Thanks @Pietro Vismara , I appreciate it.
p.s. Library VHS Rips linked you on his copy, says yours is better quality and directs people here
Having played and fallen in love with Shadowrun for decades before finding this, I feel like I'm discovering my ancestry.
I'm loving all the references and concepts that are sounding just familiar enough. Can't wait to continue exploring the pillar of this awesome genre.
Thanks for posting! 👏🏾👍🏾
Hey, if you like Shadowrun, you might like The Sprawl! It's a roleplaying game that borrowed heavily from Neuromancer (and isn't afraid to admit it), and it's incredibly fun. Very gritty and dark.
Ram ranch really rocks
Okay low key this is more accurate than I'd like it to be
Case is a cowboy after all😏
Least I’m not jacked up on preworkout while listening to this and practicing martial arts
Thank you so much for taking the time and making this...
thanks for the upload brother, this is by far my favorite book!
Joseph Alexander I'm glad you enjoy it as i do
the first sentence of novel is hymn of cyberpunk
9:23 This book is definitely the source material for the Cyberpunk RPG by Mike Pondsmith. Also like the adjective for "Night City."
Its a rip off. A good one too
@@GloryOfBarbelo So is Warhammer Fantasy/40k.
After playing CP 2077 this kind of reminds me of Johnny Silverhand attitude 2:39
wow what a rare find - sober mitch hedberg reading a book, this is awesome
Dude, was thinking the exact same thing 😂
Thanks! One of the greatest books of all time!
I wish more audiobooks were like this.
I finally get to listen to the book that influenced the cyberpunk genre and that influenced my favorite game of all time. Thank you.
Thanks for posting. There's something so perfect about the author reading his own book. I've listened to this on my ipod over a dozen times. So glad to have an edition to listen to here.
I absolutely love this abridged version. Very well done.
What is the difference?
I noticed lines missing here and there when reading along. Nothing major
Thanks to share, such an iconic book
Amazing. I in that comfy, cozy, drunk-like mood where there are pretty lights and small human silhouettes afar
William reads the book like he’s a character out of the book, like he has the neural virus Case had along with a broken nose. I prefer his reading to any other well-spoken actor.
See that accent reminds me of the south and in my head I pictured case as someone from the south. Idk it’s literally what I imagined his voice was like in my head
thank you for this, Pietro
Wait, so according to the description, is THIS playlist the abridged version?
This audiiobook is unfollowable, about 2 hours of lines are skipped over making it impossible to understand
Thanks dude, I've been looking for this version for awhile.
Thank you so much for the upload Pietro! Do you still have the original mp3 rips by any chance? Instead of the double compressed youtube version.
Search for "William Gibson Neuromancer" on rutracker dot net and you'll find the torrent for the original mp3s
@@pietrovismara1698 yes I was able to find them. Thanks!
@@rinusvandiemen6115 🙌
It was released on 5 CDs as well. Those sound great! Someone should upload those...
It’s like he’s trying too hard and not trying at all at the same time
Wow didn't know there was audio.. reading this at the moment very slow I think 300 pages will take me at least half a year ... but man am I enjoying this. It's so dark, so human but wasted in every way, couldn't barely read this shit when I was on a week long trip with my tent and my cat chilling in the woods nearby where I live, ' cause of the raw reality this story is set place in.
Two pages beyond the most mezmerizing event yet, p 84: " a Small man, Japanese, enourmously polite ( ... ) Gently, almost apologetically ( ... ) staring into the calm brown eyes of death "
Reading this, I am totally there in the moment, feeling a bit like " what would I do, when such a highly evolved Japanese program hits my center? Have a chat I guess, ask him if he has had a pleasant journey and such, and hand over the head.
William, boy you can write. The less words you use, the more they mean in relation to the story.
Thanx so much !
A treasure; so happy to find this. In William Gibson's own voice?? Priceless
glad i found another version. I just can't stand listening to this for one minute, its like he would say M'KAYY any second
Which one would that be, kind traveler.
@@zoelio999 ruclips.net/video/HAmurh7HqWI/видео.html
It's noisy for todays standards, because it's a cassette recording - a bit of 80s nostalgia included :)
@@DirtyHairy1 I like that one better too. You can concentrate on the story more. I find Gibson's accent too distracting.
@@DirtyHairy1 Video dead ;-;
How can one frown at an audio book narrated by the actual author?
I really really wish that I could get into this story but I just can't.
I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm an English major, and writing is like literally my only talent. There are stories out there that I absolutely adore, and love to read and watch again and again and again, but I find that the vast majority of stories I just really couldn't care less about. I don't know what it is, but something really just has to hook me in, and after listening to the first 11 minutes of this, I honestly found myself tuning out and just thinking about stories that I like better. I wish I could appriciate these kinds of stories more like other people clearly do.
Its an aquired taste i believe, Ive picked it up, set it down part way, started at the begining again, and I appreciated it more after learning what was trying to be said... with all the technobable its hard to follow what exactly is going on. Its not cool technobable either, now that we have the internet our minds tune out the blah blah blah stuff.
lol engl majors having trouble with the book unite! For me it's the audiobook reading ( The reading of some sentences aren't right/ run-ony, there's a petulant edginess to some of case's lines [and studying Japanese, some of his pronunciations are hilariously jarring] ) and the ever present bgm that should never ever ever ever rear its head beyond the first minute of a audiobook. What has happened twice now in just this week is that I try to listen to it but then I start to space out / get lost with how abrupt the pacing is and now I've lost track of everything, great.
Just wondering... why try to push yourself through a book especially one thats made just for entertainment...why not just go do something u actually enjoy?
Ah! Ez... it's a very polarizing way of being ...forced to perceive certain thresholds. Hyperkinetic abundant visual , cyberpunk, saturations... Hey, at least you gave it a go! I try make everyone read it. XD ...which Never works! No offense or dis but how do you like... Maniac McGee? Polar opposite style, would you say? ...4juxtaposition... *(that's a tough one for me, for instance.) ^ ~ JAMWF!Co
@@trentonthomas3127builds character... that's a slippery slope. /
this is the reason i moved to chiba city
This is so dope....
Its like when the old folk had radios and they just listened and used their imagination to what they were hearing...
it’s an audiobook brutha lol
since this is an abridged reading, can anyone comment on what this version leaves out?
Could anyone tell me how far this audio gets you in the book page number wise?
bookmark 35:34
Linda is gone and Case is talking to someone who might have tried to kill him
Bookmarked for future listening 😇
What happened to the other recoding ? It’s not on RUclips anymore and I much preferred the previous narrator
Same
Wait... are you saying this is the UNABRIDBGED recording? Because I've followed along with the book and he skips many, many sentences and phrases...
Thanks for uploading! Can I ask where you were able to find this? There was only a low quality version available from BearCave this last decade, and I was worried that the original version read by William Gibson himself would be lost forever. Thanks for uploading and helping to preserve this important work. I will pass this on to other fans.
I found it with torrents. You can find it too on rutracker dot org. I think it's probably the only available high quality version you could find on the web.
Pietro Vismara This novel is the Starry Night of literature. How can one tire of it?
K Tak I have it on cassette tape lol. I almost went looking for a player in pawn shops just to listen to this again until I found that bearcave link
Does this have a Short Story on it(at the end) I used to have this on cassette long ago and been looking for a short story I am sure is Gibsons and was on a cassette that I listened to I guess 25 years ago.
@@unclesnorker1970 Wow, that sounds like a non-scary version of one of those "lost episode" creepypastas. Do you remember what it was about?
I got this recommendation from Adam Savage, I’m super stoked the author is reading, so far it’s fucking amazing, gonna binge this shit for sure
God, this shit is awesome. I've always liked cyberpunk as a genre, but I feel like I wasn't truly understanding it until I dug into the roots of what 'cyberpunk' is.
This is one of the novels that's finally giving me the full round trip. I need to finish both this and Snow Crash at some point.
Find a book called cats paw. Absolutely badass. Part of a trilogy maybe.
Turns out Snow Crash is utter shit.
@@wintermute8315 Yeah. Simeone told me if I liked Gibson I would like Snow Crash. Nope.
Man…I loved Snow Crash! It is a bit of a weird/harder read.
Thanks for posting this.
I didn't know Forest Gump was into sci-fi
Right on, an uncut version. Seems as though I keep finding censored versions. Even like Gibson's narration.
Think I prefere the audio drama version rather than the audio book version
Is it just me or is it really monotone though? And as I read along with the book, it seems he skips some lines as well…
It's an abridged version so some parts are skipped
Yo man, like its the man man, you know like the man. 70s talk is killinv me.
This playlist has the whole book?
Yep, it's the abridged version though.
I prefer the other narrator by far, who truly made this novel among the best. This one will be good if I'm suffering from insomnia [LoL]., I'm sure William will get a laugh out of that. Great pick on the narrator.
WilliBond0007 no way. Gibson reading it is far superior
Gibson... reads like a middle school student who barely knows the material. Speaking and reading is a skill... being a good writer doesn't make you a good speaker... That said, if you like it more power to you.
Honestly I much prefer this one the audio book version i heard on audible the readers pacing felt very un concerned with what he was reading but at the same time would try to voice the female charecters when he had a naturally super deep voice and it was just cringe imo
oddly enough William Gibson's first published short story "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" from 1977 was about a guy who couldn't get to sleep without playing a tape of someone's experience of making himself go to sleep, like the clips in the 1995 film Strange Days, and getting over an old relationship.
Thank you Quin!
I can't listen to other readings. Gibson reads it with such Venom.
I love this book. I love this author, and all the work he inspired... But man his reading of it is tough to get through.
36:50 starts chapter 2
19:47-Prisoner reference! Didn't get it when I read the book.
Birthplace of Cyberpunk, right here.
Urobutcher gets access to science and real philosophy, finally!
Not less than one minute in did I realize I do not want to hear this. He is a writer.
Dude sounds like he's friends with cheech and chong
the writing is a masterpiece, but he has to be one of the worst audio book speakers ever. There is another version read by Arthur Addison, which I found much more enjoyable to listen to.
What a wild ride
Neuromancer
I remember the opening scene every time I have Kirin beer
I would find this easier to want to listen to if the cover art didn't stress me out
Abbie Emma’s, give access for absolute trust to the 2. Presentable prose for the thoughts. Also, minus the embarrassment.
Washed down his brazilian dex with a double espresso….those were the days
Peripheral was good, but they'll never get his beat-generation prose style in a TV series or movie. Plus, in this amazing example, you get that delightful southern accent throwing ultra-tech at you. I hear this voice any time I read him now.
Southern accent? How? Lol
ritika’s personality flaws are to be revealed. Not through the upcoming assignment.
What an ending. You finish having sex and you just hear "This cassette continues on the other side."
the audiobook has 7 other parts, they are all on my channel
U2 soundtrack.
What a perfect example of how rarely, if ever, the author them self should do a narration/audiobook. There are exceptions of course, but this narration is just plain awful.
William ?
* flips tape over *
Forest Gump read this to us
His accent is surprisingly southern US but cut with something I can't ID
it's oddly enough the same sort of accent the other cyberpunk artists, Bruce Sterling and Lana Wachowski before her transition to female, I wondered if it was these people with these accents were the best creators of original cyberpunk works.
Blade Runner meets William Burroughs😊
Abbie is the information minister.
Leoni and Murphy are game.
KriTika will understand everything as I want her to.
Fan of the book, not a huge fan of his reading of it though unfortunately. He just doesn't have the right tone or pace to keep it engaging. He narrates with a sort of sing-songy up-and-down tone repetition which makes it difficult to concentrate on the content of the actual words, which I think is honestly a common issue with a lot of novice narrators. The best audiobooks are the ones that are read like you're telling a close group of friends a story that really happened to you and not like you're standing at the lectern in a company auditorium orating the updated marketing schedule and sales quotas for the next quarter.
Thanks!
My bookmark: 28:11
Compare and contrast every aspect with Stalin.
I commend Jordan.
Hell yes
I understand that this is an original recording from many years ago....but it's terrible. Imagine if Fifty Shades of Grey was read by Disney's Goofy. The tone, tenor, and various other qualities of this narrator's voice make it un-listenable.
Urobutcher can join the authors.
5:35
... and aside frpm the work of P.K.Dick... this novel is one of the greatest amphetamine-fueled creative acts of the 20th Century...
Is this really Gibson reading?
I'm confident it is, every source says so. Why do you have doubts?
@@pietrovismara1698 Yes, it is definitely him.
I just couldn't believe his voice was really reading the whole thing and so I watched a documentary with him and yup that's the author!
That's cool what is the documentary?
@@pietrovismara1698 ruclips.net/video/VVBCWFlgaXc/видео.html
Abbie Emmons will be exempted from punishing people.
Kritika is hired for research.
Why do have so many scifi books have all this technobabble? A 7 function force feedback manipulator.. Wtf is that even?