Web of Angels

{{Short description|1980 novel by John M. Ford}}

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| author = John M. Ford

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| published = 1980

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Web of Angels is a novel by John M. Ford. Written in 1980, the novel investigates the life of a hacker of the Web, an instantaneous communications network that allows some users to retrieve and store data, write computer programs, and even travel between different human worlds.[http://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/9812-web-of-angels Web of Angels], RisingShadow{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/784567.Web_of_Angels|title=Web of Angels|author=John M. Ford|work=Goodreads}}{{cite book|last=Gresh|first=Lois H.|author2=Robert Weinberg|title=The Science of Anime|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|year=2005|page=168|isbn=1-56025-768-7}}

Web of Angels is often considered a proto-cyberpunk novel, predating the publication of William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by four years.{{cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ford_john_m|title=Authors : Ford, John M : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|publisher=}}