Necromancer won the Hugo, Nebula & Philip Dick award in 83-84. It inspired, briefly, the sub-genre of cyberpunk. It's credited with coining the term CyberSpace and the matrix used interchangeably. Unfortunately it's not a very good novel and won all those awards, I think, because it came out the same time as Blade Runner. Comparisons were made. Like most elections most people have no idea what they're voting for and I think many voted for this William Gibson 1st novel on that basis. Not recommended.
