Here is the BBC radio play of the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price..

This is the best audio book version I've ever heard this in all the times I've looked. Gibson was a prophet but his reading voice is hard to work with

@AleksanderNevskij47

10 ай бұрын

This is an adaptation. This is not Neuromancer 100%.

@MukesBoy

9 ай бұрын

@@AleksanderNevskij47 Ive read it multiple times, the first time in 91 and I've got WG's version in audio as well. I'm aware of what this is and it still beats his voice hands down regardless

@Null257

7 ай бұрын

I love Gibson's reading of Neuromancer. It's imperfect, but those imperfections lend character. This, on the other hand, strikes me as being oversold. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

Ah the sprawl, I am home.

I have read through Neuromancer and it truly is one of the greatest sci-fi literature ever written. I wish there are more BBC radio plays for Neuromancer. I love the atmospheric sound effects and the voice actors. Amazing! ❤️😁👌

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@thatoneguy3590

Жыл бұрын

@Colin Glass He said one of the greatest, the ones you named however are also great and at the top

@OnceTheyNamedMeiWasnt

Жыл бұрын

@Colin Glass No they aren't. It's a matter of cut glass, Colin.

@jwinnfield9192

Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp Mallory says hi

@myname-mz3lo

Жыл бұрын

it is NOT sci-fi it is cyberpunk . the cyberpunk genre came out as a protest against sci-fi . it disagreed with everything sci-fi said .

I always forget BBC made brilliant sci fi radio plays......hitch hikers being my favourite....

@memegazer

4 жыл бұрын

rong...they never did hitch hikers

@hanniffydinn6019

4 жыл бұрын

Meme Gazer they did you spastic!

@ohgosh5892

3 жыл бұрын

@@memegazer It was written originally as a BBC Radio 4 radio play. That is how it began, every week on R4 in the evenings. We were avid listeners to one of the funniest things ever written. Later a TV series was made, and then a follow-up series of radio plays too. The TV series was the most expensive the BBC had ever made. It had many of the actors from the original radio play. I have the BBC vinyl records from the original radio series still. Books were later added to the series, before Douglas Adams moved onto Dirk Gently. Many years after that, a film was made.

@joe-nz4xz

9 ай бұрын

*Wrong @@memegazer

@memegazer

9 ай бұрын

@@joe-nz4xz not rong they did hitch hikers guide to the galaxy yes, but not hitch hikers

seems like Neuromancer actually coined multiple sayings now commonly associated with the internet.

@bokusworld9780

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called predictive programming. It’s awesome. Simpsons does it a lot…it’s all part of your programming, there are no coincidences. It’s fun! 🦌🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬

I love this adaptation of Neuromancer, though it has minor differences from the novel it seems more fluent and cohesive. The scripting and voice acting is very good and the cyberpunk soundscape is very immersive in creating a vivid world setting. Good stuff indeed.

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

I thought a lot of Case's dialogue sounded quite muted/harder to understand in comparison to the bartender and Molly for example, but other than that this is a kick-ass way to experience the story :) Can't wait to see how the movie version does

@Pasakoye

11 ай бұрын

I just imagined him short. But he has a big and tall inner monologue.

@Prizm44

7 ай бұрын

It's because this upload screwed up the original audio quality. Look around on KZread, you can find a proper version that doesn't mute Case's voice.

I love that they call her Stepping Razor. It's an old song but a goodie 😃

@bokusworld9780

2 жыл бұрын

There are a few versions of it too. All are superb. Molly is so hot. Oops.

Remarkable writer of dialogue, William Gibson. Molly and The Dixie Flatline are my favorites. All the dialogue is just A+ though.

@lionelchan1601

5 жыл бұрын

The Rastas. I met Aerol and Malcom well before having met real ones. Helped me get up to speed quite a bit.

@hanniffydinn6019

5 жыл бұрын

Alan Falleur r

This is a wonderful radio play of one of my absolute favorite books. I reread Neuromancer often and just begin to listen to the audiobook of that. The BBC produced lots of excellent radio plays. Caves of Steel is excellent as well.

Thank you; a decade ago only half of this program was available. So cool to hear the entire show finally. Cool voice cast too. Love how they worked in western US accents because of the 'Cowboy' references to make it seem literal. The Dixie flatline was the best 😁

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I haven't read this for many years. I'd forgotten how much it sounded like an old noir detective novel.

Right........ couldnt get into the book back in the day. Here goes with the radio play. Thanks for the upload!

thanks for uploading , i love the sound design and the voice acting

How did this become my go to listen to fall asleep to

This has some great production!!!

Although we are hoping for the neuromancer movie to get out of development hell, at least we've got this excellent radio play!

@spacebarvideoproductions

Жыл бұрын

It’s gonna be a show on Apple TV now

@godofchaoskhorne5043

Жыл бұрын

@@spacebarvideoproductions Neuromancer is too short for a proper show.

This is fantastic!

Cool Radioplay! Thanks for the upload! I’d love to see a mini-series with the budget some of these Netflix shows are getting. Problem is, studios think they need to update this story, because of all the media it has helped spawn. And Gibson really hated what the studio did to his Johnny Mnemonic script, and the production of the film. But, Neuromancer has a few distinct settings, and characters, that I worry a studio would blend into one character and only two main set pieces, for a film. A series would work better, imo, but it could be done in a two hour movie. Maybe Denis Villanueve wont have Sci-Fi burn out, after Dune, and he’ll complete a trifecta of awesome Science Fiction, with a Neuromancer movie.

@thorazine666

5 жыл бұрын

I agree.They have plans for a SnowCrash series but it's been up in the air for awhile.

@shubhampranav

3 жыл бұрын

Denis villanue already has a trifecta of awesome scifi movies arrival, blade runner 2049, dune

I loved this! Having read the book and been astounded by the ideas therein this was a nicely truncated version . Loved it!

David Holt did an excellent job as Riviera. Really made me hate the character. Thanks for the upload. I just finished the book and I figured I'd listen to this. I understand it had to be edited for content and length, but man I wish that they didn't have to cut so many details.

@lukehawksbee

6 жыл бұрын

They also really screwed up the delivery of some of the lines, and managed to turn a character who even refers to *himself* as ' *the* Finn ' into an Irish guy called Finn. But on the whole, enjoyable.

@keithwat6245

6 жыл бұрын

The full audiobook is available

This was pretty cool. Makes a long drive a lot easier.

Absolute classic. Thanks for posting.

Well done, well done. Thank you much.

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

This is really well done. I always wanted to know what this novel was about after reading a bunch of PKD. There is a lot of Electric Sheep here, I love it.

Very cool, thanks for uploading!

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad to know Nikon pulled itself out of its slump.

This is amazing 👏 I'm really into this.

I want some endorphin analog

Mike Walker Directed this as well as many of my favs. The Caesar! series , The Woman in Black, The Veldt, Dickens adaptations, and many others. Oh yeah, and Plantagenet (one of my real favs along with Caesar!) Landfall if you want another sci-fi foray from walker. Thanks

bless the BBC!

Thanks uploader!

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Played with C64 and Amiga 500 :) Thanks!

Thank you very much. For those interested in a German adaption, be welcome!

Listening to this while playing cyberpunk.

@GB-yt9sn

3 жыл бұрын

Listening while 3d printing figures for cyberpunk red 🤓

@kenny13890

3 жыл бұрын

Cyberpunkk ripoff damn shame they did the game like that

@kenny13890

3 жыл бұрын

book and audiobook spectacular. Thx friend

This is a radio play. Not an audiobook. So, of course it is abridged a lot.

@warrensteel9954

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the audio book is over 5hr long.

Broadcast September 2002. It would be helpful if uploaders took the trouble to add a bit of metadata.

Thanks man! This book is a classic, but I’ve never gotten to hear the radio play before.

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

Brilliant performance

The guy that voices the rastafarian guy sounds like the guy who voiced another rastafarian guy in the Blade Runner game. I'm guessing he's the same voice actor...

@ilderogtyde

3 жыл бұрын

That game is brilliant!

They took out the sex scene between Molly and Case...bogus.

37:05 one of my favorite moments from the book.

They don't find him in the Sprawl, that's slang for the BAMA. He starts in Chiba

Second episode starts at 58:25.

When the novel was written, an analog television tuned to a dead channel would display black and white static. Not dark blue or black like a modern TV.

"Goodbye V. And, never stop fightin'."

Great for a dark and rainy afternoon or evening. I, too, hope the movie version is made with some real heart. I don't want to see a Ryan Reynolds/Gal Gadot action comedy in a Cyberpunk setting. I want to feel the Sprawl. I want the audience to ask questions so they read the book after seeing it. They'd be crazy to take this beautiful dialogue and narration and turn it into: "You okay?" "Yeah." "We gotta go." "Let's go." (Cue Linkin Park song while they run.)

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

9 ай бұрын

I hope so too!

they've gotta make this into a movie

@MichaelMcGrathangrywasp

6 жыл бұрын

Szedrokonis Vrykylos and if they don't do it justice, I will find them & I will kill them!!!

@szedrokonisvrykylos7457

6 жыл бұрын

lolololol

@PsychoholicSlag83

6 жыл бұрын

Szedrokonis Vrykylos Totally. It's not one of those books tha seem impossible to adapt. I think it's absolutely filmable

@MrAtlantisman1

6 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Long overdue!!

@samuellight4733

6 жыл бұрын

Soon!

Wow what foresight

Very nice; some of the newer stuff has very similar plot, setting.

Só fckn nice!!!!

Kinda upset that they got rid of Linda Lee and Juile Dean, but other than that, this Audio Drama is excellent

@grimnar1976

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about that.

Looking forward to the book. Shades of PKD.

Your awesome and like it yay 😎👍

I liked when Mr Armitage transformed into a dragon at the end of NECs Shadowrun. I took him out with my rocket launcher.

The Matrix sure ripped off from this...

@jpkjnn6733

8 ай бұрын

*everything* ripped this off. That's why it's such a seminal piece of fiction.

I'm looking forward to the ChatGPT 6 version of this phenomenal, amazing version of this novel.

I'd recognize Andrew Scott's voice anywhere ♥♥♥

This is pretty good considering they had to shoehorn the whole novel into a ninety minute radio play. Some of the BBC radiophonic workshop music is a bit cheesy (this is _the_ cyber-punk classic, after all; some early Ministry or Front 242 would have fit the bill nicely) and John Shrapnel had to voice so many characters that it became obvious, but I enjoyed the production overall. Indeed, it's worth noting that this BBC effort, even with some of the more adult elements omitted and using a truncated version of the plot, was more respectful of the original material and _way_ more successful as a piece of entertainment than Hollywood was able to manage with the execrable Johnny Mnemonic. The only real mistake, to my mind, was the decision to drop Case's junkie girlfriend, Linda, from the story entirely. Given how important she was as a means of manipulating Case during the struggle between Wintermute and Neuromancer, and she was part of one of the pivotal moments in the book, it seemed an odd choice to me. On the whole though, this was an entertaining radio play. If, however, you are new to the work of William Gibson, for god's sake _read the books!_

So he was a net runner that fucked up lol haha but no really this Story is amazing

When was this radio play released? Why is my accursed algorithm only kicking this up now?

This is like real life.

Thank you for posting this - very cool. I just finished the book, started on Count Zero. Is there a rendition of that? =)

@GoDamnWeird

11 ай бұрын

The Sprawl Series are my favorite William Gibson stories. But the first story in the series (prequel if you like) is Johnny Mnemonic from the Burning Chrome short story collection, along with Dogfight which gives an insight into Riviera's holographic tech (he's not in the story). Finn and Moll both are in Johnny Mnemonic. So technically the short story collection is where it begins. Count Zero is no slouch either and his story continues in Mona Lisa Overdrive. Have fun!

Classic

So i wonder if you can get the music that they play at the bar?

BBC forever!

Am I the only one here who sees similarities to Inception ( 2010 ) and Escape From New York?

These accents are bizarre. They drift between English and Texan. Howdy there pardner, fancy a spot of tea?

They shouldn't have removed Linda Lee from the story it would have made for a better ending, Armitage also seems to have far too much personality which clashes with the way he's described by Case.

@txmetalhead82xk

Жыл бұрын

Hoping for a brief appearance from Crazy Edo lol.

arent you lonely in this world ? nah theres loads like me , nearest is on alpha centurai . head go boom . thats how intestellar travel could happen . via cyberspace . thats how cool this book is .

wow

Not bad, but you have to keep on top of it

Does anyone happen to know the Japanese Song playing in the Chatsubo bar at 4:30 ish?

@akatosh2795

5 жыл бұрын

Shoukichi - Jing Jing

I look forward to the AI voiced version

Wonderful voice acting [aside from the ninja] but removing Linda Lee was unforgivable.

@123456nusha12345

3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert mannnnn

@Skybaby79

3 жыл бұрын

@@123456nusha12345 Not really, if you know the story, It's really a warning.

Is this the whole version? There are some audiobooks that are +8hrs

@colinedmunds2238

5 жыл бұрын

Xeno Idaltu radio play, not audiobook. This is essentially an abridged version with better sound design/voice acting

@xenoidaltu601

5 жыл бұрын

@@colinedmunds2238 Does this version include all the content from the book?

@brycelynch2138

5 жыл бұрын

@@xenoidaltu601 No, it doesn't. It's abridged and somewhat altered. Some characters are gone, some were folded together.

@akeel_1701

4 жыл бұрын

Aye, that's audiobooks - but doing a radio play is like making a movie - except without any visuals - and I'm sure you know how much you lose when you make a movie of the book

I wonder if this is where Alastair Reynolds got the idea for his “beta” and “alpha” level simulations from?

@davidnorris166

2 жыл бұрын

No, that would be Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Also secure

needs subtitles. audio is sometimes barely audible.

Does anyone have a copy of the script?

Sound effects are a bit too much. Tgey distract from the content.

Bit rough around the edges but good nonetheless

Jamaicans be everywhere lol 🇯🇲

Man, so much missing from this version. Don't get me wrong, it's good, but... so many missing elements.

@phreak761

4 жыл бұрын

You can't be too hard on it, it definitely paints the right picture, it's just a shame they removed a lot of the best elements from the book, same with most movies unfortunately they don't always include everything that made the original work so good.

cyberpunks not death yo

Is this mixed in stereo? Guess I’ll have to listen and find out. Julia Roberts’ does the voice of Molly Millions? She’s sick in HOOK, that’s cool. I’m not. 🐣🐣🐣 👊🎤⬇️💥

Why does armitage sound like a jolly old chubby white dude. When I imagined him looking like that Russian from rocky

Wait does this have to do with cyberpunk 2077? Or like prior to it?

@izukurinnvarris7797

3 жыл бұрын

Not connected in the slightest, just the same genre

@GB-yt9sn

3 жыл бұрын

The game definitely nods a lot to this, even the plot of a body being corrupted by a neuro virus-thing. But this book is one of the main influences that kicked off the genre so of course CP'77 would include references to this classic book

@aaronkarnov

3 жыл бұрын

CP77 is based on the pen & paper game cyberpunk 2020, which is loosely based on gibson's neuromancer, so yes, indirectly.

@juleswoodbury58

Жыл бұрын

Well cyberpunk is cyberpunk but the cdpr game's first mission "the heist" is like 95 percent stolen from neuromancer

Is that nana visitor I hear ??

🖤 🧠

How did they find a guy who could mimic an American accent, to play the role of Case.

@joshbates9015

2 ай бұрын

You're kidding, right? Most British people can do a more or less convincing American accent. Granted, about 70% of those can only do either a New York or southern accent due to them being better aligned with our natural enunciation, but still, this isn't some unicorn skill that would be hard to find. Most of the media we consume comes from the US. We got you down pat, or at least better than the atrocious British accents you guys attempt, which invariably sounds either like a Monty Python character or a cockney gangster.

Mark 57:09

12:00 30:55

1:20:00

Anyone else here waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to patch?

This rendition of Corto was awful. It completely changed the dynamics between Neuromancer and Winter mute.

Manifestation Request from Simulation 9356 (Late Republic Era of the Pax Americana era circa 1949-2020) from "Reggie" in Tech Support. Can we please get a full blown Peak TV adaptation already?? I get it, you Futures love shoving Roman content down our throats...little wink wink? But most sims in this era don't even know who Clodius Pulcher was so they won't get the winks. Please send down a great series....can we get a descent Case? Maybe a noname. But Molly?? We all loved the Queens Gambit, how about Aryn Taylor-Joy as Molly?

Nicola Walker

Wtf the bbc use to run Neuromancer... yet look at what they did to doctor who today. Yeah... I'll f#cking never forgive you for ruining a show that has been OURS since 1963. Could have taken anything but you f#ckt with the quiet nerds, Let's see how this plays out