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Neuromancer, William Gibson's cyberpunk masterpiece can be a difficult read until you navigate the innovative vocabulary and ideas.

Here are a few ideas that helped me catch on quick and really enjoy the novel. I hope it can be helpful for you.

GLOSSARY:

BAMA or Sprawl - The Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, the Sprawl.

Coffin -cheap miniaturized hotel rooms in Japan due to lack of space

Cyberspace - The virtual world (not the internet)
see matrix

Dixie Flatline - The filed personality construct of the great hacker McCoy Pauley. Molly steals it with Case from the Sense/net archive.

Ice - Intrusion countermeasure electronics. Basically a security and virus protection countermeasure.

Lado-Acheson - The sun of Freeside, an artificial lightening system.

Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpole - Member of the Ashpole dynasty, third clone in a series of 10 Janes

Ono-Sendai - a Hosaka Computer, a Console

Sense/Net - Corporate data library which files constructs of all important personalities

Tessier-Ashpole S.A. - Multinational corporation, a family which perpetuates incestuous cloning of its members through generations, owns Wintermute, Neuromancer and Villa Straylight

Villa Straylight - Basically the Ashpole compound, owned by TA, strictly private