Freeside

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Freeside is a vast, luxurious orbital space habitat and casino resort featured in William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer."

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Freeside canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
fictional space habitat
orbital resort
accessMethod space travel
appearsIn Neuromancer
appearsInSeries Sprawl trilogy
associatedWithCharacter Armitage
Case
Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool
Molly Millions
Neuromancer
Wintermute
controlledBy Tessier-Ashpool S.A.
countryOfAuthor Canada
creator William Gibson
depictedAs exclusive and expensive
firstPublicationAppearance 1984
genre cyberpunk
governedBy Tessier-Ashpool family
hasComponent Villa Straylight
hasEconomicActivity gambling
high-end tourism
hasFeature artificial gravity
casinos
gardens
luxury hotels
shopping arcades
influenced later cyberpunk depictions of orbital habitats
influencedBy earlier space habitat concepts in science fiction
languageOfWork English
locatedInFictionalUniverse Sprawl universe
linked to: Sprawl trilogy
medium novel
narrativeRole climactic setting in Neuromancer
orbits Earth
primaryFunction casino resort
luxury resort
tourist destination
settingOf events in Neuromancer
shape spindle-shaped
structureType orbital space habitat
space station
themeAssociation artificial intelligence control
class inequality
corporate power
posthumanism

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Neuromancer setting Freeside
Wintermute locatedInFiction Freeside