he shifts the grounds of sf displacement inwards from cyber (as it were) to punk; the world his novels describe is old (whereas in agenda or First SF, the future is new) and whether or not the world can be understood, which in Gibson's work is not the case, its inhabitants are con...
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William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral.
The debut novel by Gibson,Neuromancerhas been praised as one of the first and most-respected works within the cyberpunk genre and has received numerous accolades, including the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Hugo Award. The novel served as the first book in the "Sprawl" tr...
Analyzes the concepts of mythology and technology in the novels of William Gibson. `Ciberpunk' movement within science fiction; Punk rock; Ways in which primitive mythology is used in ritualizing and symbolizing the rebellion against authority; Extrapolated technologies to attain states of physical ...
The Sprawl trilogy (also known as the Neuromancer, Cyberspace, or Matrix trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). The novels are all set in the same fictional fut
Count Zerothreads together three distinct plot arcs, which stay relatively divorced from each other until the climax of the novel brings them together. It’s an early example of the sort of narrative weaving that became a staple of Gibson’s novels. ...
TL: William Gibson has written about Voudoun. Many of his Voudoun people talk about the human being as a horse, and how the god comes down and rides the human being. DB:That’s the Haitian metaphor — the horse. It’s the same idea. ...
PRAISE FOR THE SINGULARITY NOVELS “A tremendous book that every single person needs to read. In the vein of Daniel Suarez’s Daemon and Freedom(TM), William’s book shows that science fiction is becoming science fact. Avogadro Corp describes issues, in solid technical detail, that we are de...
To create this world, Gibson drew on material ranging from Dashiell Hammett’s novels to Steely Dan’s songs and blended them into what one reviewer called “high-tech electric poetry.” Along the way, Gibson introduced new words to the language--cyberspace,black ice,meat puppet--and helped ...