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Before Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for prominent science fiction periodicals – mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace.

The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome " ( 1982 ), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic " ( 1981 ) laid the foundations for the novel.

John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?

' It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot.

" The novel's street and computer slang dialogue derives from the vocabulary of subcultures, particularly " 1969 Toronto dope dealer's slang, or biker talk ".

Gibson heard the term " flatlining " in a bar around twenty years before writing Neuromancer and it stuck with him.

Author Robert Stone, a " master of a certain kind of paranoid fiction ", was a primary influence on the novel.

The term " Screaming Fist " was taken from the song of the same name by legendary Toronto punk rock band The Viletones.