William Gibson

 Hungary A reggeli órákban William Gibson cyberpunk sci-fi író publikált egy hasznos ötletet: változtassuk meg Twitter-beállításainkat, jelöljük be lakóhelyünknek Teheránt, és az ennek megfelelő időzónát is állítsuk be, az iráni bloggereket a Twitteren ugyanis ...

Metro Canada - Toronto, Canada Even on Almost.at, like most social media platforms, communication between users around real world events tend to cling to one element of that event, such as changing your Twitter location to Tehran (which author William Gibson is calling 'Tehraning' ...

 United States Today's idea: If you gauge the health of a literary form by its impact on language, a blogger argues, then there's no genre in better shape than science fiction. Associated Press William Gibson, neologist. Language | A million words in the English ...

In literature whether it is Phillip K. Dick, JG Ballard, William Gibson, George Orwell—whatever sort of Sci-Fi film you are looking at, it is a hell of a ... and more »

 Canada What he has is a remarkable collection of images of Vancouver, its buildings and its people – many of them long-time friends such as artists Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace and Rodney Graham and sci-fi writer William Gibson. The transparencies may have been ...

 CA Several people in Neuromancer by William Gibson. Super-hacker Case meets his girlfriend Linda Lee, who was murdered in Chiba City, but her consciousness lives on in the cyber-matrix. And then he and his friends have to steal a ROM containing the ...

 CA It's remarkable that Hollywood is getting friendly with CC licensing, but this is definitely something I have a wait-and-see attitude about. It reminds me of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and "cool hunters" at bars dropping the name of the best ...

 NY After all, Morocco was way cool in the 60's, Malaysia used to be a William Gibson cyberpunk fantasy, Indonesia? What can I say, give me 5 years there on the beach. Lebanon (without the civil war) - ooh la la, the cuisine, the cafés. Turkey? ...

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 NY This virtual canvas is not too far removed from the 3D artists portrayed in William Gibson's "Spook Country" who build location specific installations, viewable through special equipment that creates a layer of virtual reality over the physical. ...

the concept inspired by cyberspace described by William Gibson in his Neuromancer novels, as well as Neal Stephenson's depiction of the matrix in Snow ... and more »

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Man & Dragon: Michael Swanwick “William Gibson and I both broke out at the same time in the 1980s with our first books,” Michael Swanwick points out. “My desire was to be a published writer, and I succeeded; his desire was to rewrite the diction of science fiction, and he failed. ...

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 NY “Accusations” and “Human Disaster,” like the recent novels of onetime cyberpunk sage William Gibson, portray a dystopian “future” that is also startlingly contemporary, submerged in eerie synth beats and simple verse/chorus/verse structures. ...

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On an overcast morning in 1999, William Gibson, father of cyberpunk and author of the cult-classic novel Neuromancer, stepped into a limosine and ... it.truveo.com

I have always associated Cyberpunk with the work of William Gibson, author of NEUROMANCER, and the man for whom the Gibson supercomputer in the 1995 movie HACKERS was named. In a Gibson story our society and culture have evolved into a technological ...

 NY Along with William Gibson (Neuromancer) and Bruce Sterling (Schismatrix), Williams (Voice of the Whirlwind) helped create the cyberpunk fiction movement of the late 20th century. Now, he moves beyond cyberpunk into an even nearer future, ...

 IL by Bruce Sterling by Zachary Houle Bruce Sterling is a bit of a pro when it comes to the world of science-fiction. His most famous claim to fame might be that he co-wrote The Difference Engine, a bestseller, with William Gibson some 20 years ago. ...

Most importantly, the story "Burning Chrome" marked the first appearance of the term cyberspace — which Gibson would later describe in No Maps for These Territories as an "evocative and essentially meaningless" buzzword that could serve as a cipher for ...

 IL Sonic Nurse begins with “Pattern Recognition” a nod to the William Gibson novel and a strong hint that the days of old were back for the band. William Gibson was highly utilized in Daydream Nation; his writing influential for many of that album’s work. ...

 Australia Professor William Gibson will be a special guest speaker at a Meniere's Disease Forum at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus on March 7. The forum will be held at the Lower Lecture Theatre on March 7 from 1.30pm to 4.30pm. Professor Gibson is currently ...

 OH - Jan 23, 2009 Maybe this joystick-and-rad-guns stuff was hot when William Gibson published Neuromancer back in 1984. The very idea of cyberspace was cool back then. ...

By Cory Doctorow In 1992, William Gibson released "Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)", a haunting poem about loss and memory that came on a floppy disc that erased itself as you played it. Here's a screen-capture of the Agrippa poem being read out inside a Mac classic emulator. There were other editions, even more...

By Развигор(noreply@blogger.com) In his early cyberpunk works set in the Neuromancer universe, William Gibson envisioned hackers (cyberspace jockeys, cyber cowboys) jacking in into the matrix not seating in front of a computer, but lying down on their belly in a position resembling driving riding a high-powered moto...

By Jesse Burning Chrome Set in the world of cyberspace and computer hacking. Bobby Quine and Automatic Jack are trying to figure out a way of pulling off the one big score that will make them rich. But industrial espionage is a dangerous business, especially when they decide to rip off Chrome, the mos...

By Mark Steyn Is that where we're headed? William Gibson used the phrase a year or so back in his novel Spook Country; the Hyacinth Girl picked it up at her website; and I ran with it for a column north of the border. Now the Hyacinth Girl has returned to the topic. David Warren thinks another literary conc...

 - Oct 11, 2008 The bags are drawn from the William Gibson line, which is inspired by the science fiction writer of the same name. "The collection features a shoulder bag ...

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By tycho garen Yesterday I posted a note about what I’ve been reading and about Melissa Scott’s The Jazz, and in it I realized that I talked about William Gibson’s Neuromancer in comparison to Melissa’s book and I didn’t get into my thoughts on the Gibson.

By Erik Malinowski A decade and a half of provocative content has inspired plenty of letters to the editor. Some of them have been thoughtful and constructive, others just plain rude. Sticks and stones, kids... I have to pass on my disappointment with the first issue of your magazine. In fact, it has made me angry ... It...

By Erik Malinowski 101 Ways to Save the Internet" had a few good ones and a whole lot of crap. Andy Harrison March 2004 Prince is geekier than William Gibson? The unhackable computer in Hackers was named after Gibson, for Pete's sake! Ever seen an unhackable computer named after Prince? Peter Aaron

 UK - Sep 24, 2008 Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and other cyberpunk authors imagined futures so dark that even the human soul could be destroyed. Science fiction evolved ...

By Jenna Wortham Future worlds described by science fiction visionaries like Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and Robert Heinlein often included wildly inventive methods of transportation to other planets, galaxies and dimensions. Left: See more of Turley's work. : Image: David Levy

By richb Idoru - William Gibson I've now read all of Gibson's novels, and a lot of his short stories. I haven't "read" Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) yet, but at that price and with it's self-destructive nature, I'm unlikely to bother. It all seems so artsy-fartsy to me. Times Without Number - John Brunner

By RU Sirius John Shirley John Shirley was the original cyberpunk SF writer, but he also writes in other genres including horror. He wrote the original script for The Crow and has written for television including Deep Space Nine, Max Headroom, and Poltergeist: The Legacy.

He tells us that without a vision, great minds can go to waste; and how high-fidelity wireframes can help communicate a simple vision. Jason's blog is 'the architecture of everything'. (jasonfurnell.wordpress.com) The William Gibson book is 'Spook Country'. (tinyurl.com/2a7mf9)

36. Spook Country, William Gibson. Gibson's latest, and the closest to the present day he's set a story. Does this disqualify it from the science fiction category he helped to revitalize twenty years ago? Not necessarily. Gibson's works have always revolved around people's interactions w...

By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: Amazon has just published a lengthy interview with William Gibson about his forthcoming novel Spook Country, which is, in my opinion, his best novel to date. Gibson holds forth on "writing in the age of Google," advancing the hypothesis that the Internet is more stimulus t...

By Akela Talamasca William Gibson could arguably be called the Godfather of the Metaverse. While he didn't invent it, his first book Neuromancer doubtless inspired geeks worldwide to create a future that would bring his vision to life. SL's certainly right up there, as far as that goes, and now Mr. Gibson will...

William Gibson, whose 1984 novel Neuromancer was a bible for Internet pioneers, is making an appearance in Second Life. Gibson wasn't the first person to use the idea of "cyberspace," but he coined the word and popularized it.   more Update your feed preferences powered by SimpleFeed

By Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin: William Gibson explains why science fiction is about the present (Cory) Steorn's "free energy" machine: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. (Mark) Laptop typewriter mod (Xeni) Mostly NSFW iPhone wallpapers: Coop, and Clayton James Cubitt. Also, unicorns! (Mark, Xeni)

By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: William Gibson did a wonderful interview with the College Crier Online, talking about his forthcoming novel Spook Country, a science fiction novel set one year in the past. In Spook Country, Gibson finds the pure expression of the science fiction writer's art: to write ab...

By David A. Utter He also had the foresight to bring his 'gaslight fantasy' series Girl Genius online, a move that Wikipedia said increased its readership and sales of print books. I'd love to see William Gibson give this a try. Anyone who can pull off the line, "The sky was the color of television, tuned to a de...

That second "introduction" is actually a series of letters between Bruce Sterling and John Kessel starting in 1985, which sounds like it's about the heart of the cyberpunk-humanist split. I hadn't even suspected such a thing existed, and I can't wait to read it myself.

By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: William Gibson has commented on the latest rumor of a Neuromancer film: Myself, I'll be willing to entertain the idea that Neuromancer is really "headed for the big screen" when I'm watching it being shot I *do* believe, though, that Peter Weir will not be going forward wit...

By Joseph Arthur Clay The Miracle Worker closes on April 15th. The Hudson Theatre Ensemble presents The Miracle Worker by William Gibson: Please visit The Hudson Theatre Ensemble for more information.Joseph Arthur Clay is a 3rd grade schoolteacher and full-time lover of music, movies, theatre and art.

By Joseph Arthur Clay The Hudson Theatre Ensemble of Hoboken, New Jersey is performing a miracle of its own with a spirited revival of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, which opened last evening at the Hudson School Performance Space on Park Avenue. For those of you who live in Manhattan, you might want to ho...

By Roxanne - William Gibson lays out an interesting theory about jet lag in Pattern Recognition. That we feel groggy and out-of-sorts because our souls are still catching up with our bodies that first day. It's a good theory in that it's a little how I feel today.