Neuromancer

Neuromancer, by William Gibson, is the original cyberpunk novel. I'm a big partial to his short stories that are compiled in Burning Chrome, and the sequel to Neuromancer, Count Zero, is also a favorite of mine.  But I was looking up a character and had occasion to read the beginning of Neurmancer (for probably the 8th or 9th time) today.  It's a bit dated but I really like his pacing, decription and most of the poetics. It left a huge impression on me when I was about 16. I never read it as dystopian (and Gibson in interviews has said he doesn't think of his Sprawl stories as that either). His characters strive for positions of mastery, of coolness itself. That's what I was striving for as a teenage, and perhaps now, as well.