Amazing new UK covers for William Gibson's Sprawl books

It’s a neat effect, certainly, but they seem too bright and cheery for the subject matter, especially the magenta text. Rather than science fiction, they strike me as existential novels about some depressed and socially isolated thirtysomething urbanite doing nothing in particular. Still, it would hardly be the first time a science fiction novel had a cover that had nothing to do with its subject matter, and at least they look nice – far more than can frequently be said.

Personally, I think Neuromancer has aged kind of poorly. I have no doubt it was seminal and groundbreaking in its time, but so much of what it does has since been done by so many others, and often much better.

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