Neuromancer

I never even found out what color her eyes were. She never showed me.

HEY ITS OKAY BUT ITS TAKING THE EDGE OFF MY GAME, I PAID THE BILL ALREADY. ITS THE WAY IM WIRED I GUESS, WATCH YOUR ASS OKAY? XXX MOLLY

"Who do I hate? You tell me."
"Who do you love?" the Finn's voice asked.
<…>
He came in steep, fueled by self-loathing.

"So many little triggers in the brain, and you just go yankin'~ 'em all. Now you gotta hate.

"But you do not know her thoughts," the boy said, beside him now in the shark thing's heart. "I do not know her thoughts. You were wrong, Case. To live here is to live. There is no difference."

"Okay." He flipped.
And found himself staring down, through Molly's one good eye, at a white-faced, wasted figure, afloat in a loose fetal crouch, a cyberspace deck between its thighs, a band of silver trodes above closed, shadowed eyes. The man's cheeks were hollowed with a day's growth of dark beard,
He was looking at himself.

"I don't suppose I should tell you this," 3Jane said, "but I don't have a key to the room you want. I never have had one. One of my father's Victorian awkwardnesses. The lock is mechanical and extremely complex."
"Chubb lock," Molly said, her voice muffled, "and we got the fucking key, no fear."

It was crowded in the elevator. Case was jammed pelvis to pelvis with 3Jane, the muzzle of the Remington under her chin. She grinned and ground against him. "You stop," he said, feeling helpless. He had the gun's safety on, but he was terrified of injuring her, and she knew it.

"The ghosts are gonna mix it tonight, lady," Case said. "Wintermute's going up against the other one, Neuromancer. For keeps. You know that?"
<…>3Jane stepped from behind the bathchair. "Where? Describe the place, this construct."
"A beach. Gray sand, like silver that needs polishing. And a concrete thing, kinda bunker..." He hesitated. "It's nothing fancy. Just old, falling apart. If you walk far enough, you come back to where you started."

he radiated a sense of quiet, an utter calm.

Riviera's holos waited for them, the torture scenes and the cannibal children.

A fresh wave of symbols swept across his vision, one line at a time.

"I know you," Case said, Linda beside him.
"No," the boy said, his voice high and musical, "you do not."
"You're the other AI. You're Rio. You're the one who wants to stop Wintermute. What's your name? Your Turing code. What is it?"

She looked like one of the girls on the Finn's old magazines in Metro Holografix come to life, only she was tired and sad and human, the ripped costume pathetic as she stumbled over clumps of salt-silver sea grass.

"Hey," he said, "it's breaking down. Bet you know, too. What is it? Kuang? Chinese icebreaker eating a hole in your heart?

He tore at the impossible knot in his shoelaces,

The music woke him,

"Jesus," Case said, and closed his eyes.

"He said you know the code. Peter said. Wintermute needs the code."
"Yes," 3Jane said, "I do. I learned it as a child. I think I learned it in a dream... Or somewhere in the thousand hours of my mother's diaries. But I think that Peter has a point, in urging me not to surrender it. There would be Turing to contend with, if I read all this correctly,

"You said you were trying to kill the old man? You fiddled his cryogenic programs?"
3Jane nodded. "I had help. From a ghost. That was what I thought when I was very young, that there were ghosts in the corporate cores. Voices. One of them was what you call Wintermute, which is the Turing code for our Berne AI,