Q: Do we know anything about how Neuromancer was edited? William Gibson's Neuromancer has somewhat of a reputation for being a challenging read. While some of this is due to neologisms and dense prose, reading the book left me with the impression that many of the intelligibility issues could be addressed with minimal editing (more likely by a professional editor rather than the author himself), in particular without considerably affecting the style.
I thus wonder whether we know anything about how it was edited that might confirm or refute this. I vaguely remember some third-hand information that the book was rushed, but that's about it. The cover of the first edition says edited by Terry Carr, but we don't know whether the latter just commissioned the book or actually touched/criticised the content.
