Neuromancer created a dense, vivid and believable world, echoes of which are still heard in science fiction today, but it's true legacy is that words like "cyberspace" have entered into common usage.
It’s strangely appropriate that a novel this young can be described as a classic, because Gibson writes about the ways in which technology that advances with increasing speed changes people and their perceptions. In many ways, technology has left his vision behind – it’s funny to read him writing with gravity about “thousands of megabytes,” but I don’t suppose too many people thought in gigabytes back in the eighties.
The tough and relentless prose drops the reader straight into the underbelly of a futuristic Japan, refracted through dream-like imaginings of the technological and economic marvel it may have seemed back then, complete with slang, unwritten codes of conduct and historical allusions. The real art here isn't the wonders of the society he conceives, but in the way the story is told.
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