Expansive Neuromancer (1984) Reading Guide and Index

Hi there! I recently read Neuromancer for the first time for class and I noticed that many people both online and in my class had a hard time as first-time readers. As a fan of world-building, I decided to share my 23-page document detailing important locations, basically every character in the novel, and many many relevant terms, definitions, and companies (as you might know, the corporation/society dichotomy is quite an important staple to the genre). Spoilers in the guide so browse at your discretion. ALSO! A big credit goes to the William Gibson Wiki and a Reddit post by [Gear-On-Baby](https://www.reddit.com/user/Gear-On-Baby/) on r/Neuromancer titled: “Neuromancer Terms and Definitions.” Let me know what I missed and if I got stuff wrong, I certainly could have since some of the definitions were just logic-based assumptions and I’ve only read through the book once.

If there are any big fans of the book, I could use help refining the blackbox defintion (e.g: the one Molly uses at Sense/Net and Case briefly mentions it after Linda breaks into his coffin) and defining cores in the context of “T-A cores” and Sikkim in this context: “The matrix blurred, resolved,
and he saw the complex of pink spheres representing a sikkim
steel combine.” Thanks!

Here’s the doc: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ovTscY-bEuMNAEgNXTCXo2voDr7qRAf7QuDIZTYThXM/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ovTscY-bEuMNAEgNXTCXo2voDr7qRAf7QuDIZTYThXM/edit?usp=sharingy-beumnaegnxtcxo2vodr7qraf7qudiztythxm/edit?usp=sharing)