Neuromancer

I grew up on science fiction, so when I had a chance to design a cover Neuromancer I jumped at the chance. Among the first of the cyberpunk genre (think The Matrix or Bladerunner), the plot centers around a down and out hacker Case. The antagonist of the book is an AI named Neuromancer, the name being a play on the word necromancer. Neuromancer has the ability to recreate the dead in digital form and uses this to both threaten and entice Case. I wanted to illustrate this conflict in a way that would only be obvious after finishing the book but still interesting enough to grab your attention. The illustration is an internet traffic map with a digitized skull coming out of it to consume a lone figure.