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Book cover of Neuromancer
NeuromancerWilliam GibsonSprawl, book 1

Characters in Neuromancer

10 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Henry Dorsett Case

    A burned-out console cowboy in Chiba City, cut off from cyberspace by nerve damage inflicted as punishment for stealing from his employers.

  • Molly Millions

    A surgically augmented street samurai with mirrored lenses sealed over her eyes and retractable blades beneath her fingernails, hired as the crew's muscle.

Antagonists

  • Wintermute

    An artificial intelligence owned by the Tessier-Ashpool family, and the run's true employer; it borrows the faces and voices of people its listeners once knew.

  • Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool

    A cloned heir of the Tessier-Ashpool clan, living in seclusion in Villa Straylight.

  • Peter Riviera

    A sadistic thief and addict whose implants let him project holographic illusions.

Supporting characters

  • Armitage

    The fixer who assembles and finances the team, and who is not the free agent he presents himself as.

  • Dixie Flatline

    McCoy Pauley, a legendary hacker and one of Case's mentors, whose personality was recorded to ROM before his death.

  • Maelcum

    A Rastafarian pilot from the Zion colony who flies the tug Marcus Garvey and distrusts the matrix on principle.

  • Julius Deane

    An ancient importer and fence who deals with Case early in the story.