“Now –

Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray.

Expanding

And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity. Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America, and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach.

And somewhere he was laughing, in a white painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.”

I’m currently reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer for the first time and it is absolutely blowing my pants off. The Godfather of cyberpunk indeed.