Résumé:
This work studies a very interesting literary issue that is the essence of cyborg identity in a
contemporary American context by taking William Gibson‘s science fiction masterpiece
Neuromancer as the first cyberpunk novel of the 1980’s. Gibson’s )1984( novel is used in this
study to highlight new science fictional trends and aims at explaining every scientific ambiguity
which characterizes the cyberpunk literature. This modest dissertation tackles the essence of
cyborg identity as a new and different representation that challenges the classic visions of
science fiction writing of the1950’s and 1960’s.Gibson’s attempts to examine the new actualities
of digital technology and scientific data that is the physical milieu of Cyberspace. This work is
divided into two chapters the first provides a theoretical background of science fiction literature
and its characteristics to pave the way for the cybernetic literature to appear; whereas the second
chapter analyses the notion of cyborg identity of distinct cyborg characters. Gibson’s title offers
a new representation of the heroic figure within a technological context, a new depiction of
characters who are a combination of body and machine. Those cyborgs are manipulated by
artificial intelligence entities they struggle to quest their lost identities between reality and
virtuality. Cyborgs are Post-human figures who still hold humanistic values such as love and
romance but in the face of the danger of science and technology on humans future
