I watched the teaser-trailer for NEUROMANCER, and promptly geeked out. It's hard to put into words just how much this means to me.

Neuromancer Teaser-Trailer

The only beef I have with the trailer is the way they have Molly's razornails -- they should be parallel with her fingernails, but oh, well.

There were two major pop cultural moments for me growing up -- one was diving headlong into Punk music when I was around 17. And the other was stumbling onto William Gibson's NEUROMANCER when I was around 19.

Both events hugely shaped me, and for the sake of brevity, I'll focus primarily on Gibson. His Sprawl Trilogy (as well as the Burning Chrome collection) absolutely affected me as a young writer.

I was so fired up that I wrote my own cyberpunk stories back when, which I sent to magazines like OMNI (of course, rejected -- I wasn't ready, yet). But the vibe just hit me hard, and shaped me as a writer.

There was that brief time when cyberpunk was a thing, and there were movies here and there. But NEUROMANCER was always the elusive property that didn't get adapted.

I have something like six different editions of Gibson's work, accumulated over the decades. It just resonated with me.

So, now an apparently unemployable 56-year-old, I see that trailer and feel the decades of longing to see it adapted, and it's finally coming at the start of 2027. I'm so excited about it.

I wrote my own cyberpunk novel, SIGHTSEER, as part of The Plastic Fantastic trilogy, my own nostalgic nod to cyberpunk, while also trying to put my own touch on it. And I'm sure there are fanboy edgelords out there who sniff at cyberpunk, but for a generation of SF fans and writers, it matters. It matters to me a whole lot.

It's rare for me to get revved up about a new series, but this one I absolutely am stoked for, and I hope Apple does justice to it.

In the meantime, I'm working on Book 2 of The Plastic Fantastic, because I'm too excited not to!

SIGHTSEER