By design, I don’t read a lot of science fiction.  I don’t like the emphasis on techno-cool over plot development, the typical reliance on stereotype over nuanced characterization.  But then again, you don’t often come across books that do all of the above well.  One example—and the seminal example of cyberpunk literature—is Neuromancer, written in 1984.  William Gibson's postmodern adventure invented cyberpunk, or stories about the technologically-savvy, anarchically-dangerous future, a genre that spawned film classics like Bladerunner and the Matrix Trilogy. In this novel, Gibson’s pseudo-hero, Case, is a computer hacker who works to take out an artificial intelligence that is trying to take over the world.