Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. It is one of the best-known works in the cyberpunk genre and the first novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award (the ‘triple crown’ of science fiction).

Neuromancer was major influences on the creators of The Matrix, a film that borrows heavily from Gibson–who also borrowed from works of other authors like Philip K. Dick. Gibson’s novel includes an orbital city called Zion–The Matrix has a underground refuge of humanity called Zion. The concept of the matrix appears in Gibson’s novel as a futuristic internet-like network that links everyone together as a ‘consensual hallucination’:

A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace…he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.

William Gibson, Neuromancer