William Gibson

I'd stalked William Gibson at one point at a book signing and had asked him what his secret to success was. You know I was a very hungry, very needy sort ...

While modern authors like Neil Stephenson and William Gibson have turned sci-fi into a genuine literary art form. Literary sci-fi loves to explore the dark ... and more »

Authors from William Gibson to Charles Stross have described technologies that combine real-world sensory perception with overlaid data inputs, ...

Okay, so William Gibson didn't exactly invent the Internet, but he gave it a cultural reference point when he came up with the concept of "cyberspace. ...

He has been called (okay, admittedly by Entertainment Weekly) “The William Gibson of his generation.” What I don't like about such bios is how they leave ...

William Gibson a créé un personnage dans l'un de ses romans (je ne me souviens plus duquel, peut-être Virtual Light) médicalement allergique aux logos. ...

Ice T, Henry Rollins and Takeshi Kitano also star in this 1995 film that was shot in Toronto and based on the short story by William Gibson. ...

This is my Final for Motion Graphics 3. The concept is based off of the William Gibson Novel "Pattern Recognition". The film does not exist. vimeo.com

When the sci-fi novelist William Gibson first put forward the notion of "cyberspace", he described it as a "consensual hallucination", where we pretend we ... and more »

When the sci-fi novelist William Gibson first put forward the notion of "cyberspace", he described it as a "consensual hallucination", where we pretend we ...

name--was already an established subgenre by 1990, when William Gibson and Bruce Sterling introduced a wider audience to it in The Difference Engine, ...

However, one that has my interest is The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, a steampunk alternate history involving key figures in the ... and more »

The Cary Library Strangers in a Strange Book Club will meet at 6:30 pm to discuss "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. Cary Community Library is at 310 S. ...

The University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of Theatre presents William Gibson's The Miracle Worker directed by Dr. Cindy Melby Phaneuf. ... Review: UNO's 'Miracle' aces the testsOmaha World-Herald YHS one-act play onstage MondayYork News-Times all 6 news articles »

IndieMoviesOnline He tweeted about it over the weekend — and William Gibson tweeted back. Epiphany. I finally figured out how to end the movie. So that probably doesn't ... The latest on Joseph Kahn's Neuromancer adaptationIndieMoviesOnline all 2 news articles »

An ambitious new work by Brody Condon, Case is a contemporary adaptation of the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. ...

 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 ...

 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? ...

 UK Famously "cyberspace" was coined by William Gibson ("Burning Chrome", 1982), but I was surprised to learn that he wasn't the first to use "matrix" for virtual reality; it appears in a 1976 Dr Who script. Of course, there are omissions: "atomic bomb" ...

 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. ...

 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 ...

By David Pescovitz Cyberpunk science fiction pioneer William Gibson has lent his name to some very cool bags and jackets (and sneakers). The products are a joint effort of two Japanese firms, bag company Porter, and Buzz Rickson, remakers of vintage military clothing. The William Gibson Collection from Bu...

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...

Think you're a big William Gibson fan? Sure, you've read all his books; maybe you even saw Johnny Mnemonic in a movie theater in 1995. (We did!) But are you willing to spend $530 dollars for a nylon bag to carry your laptop computer in? Would it help if we told you it was the same nylon used in mili...

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 ...

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

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...

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 Matt Cutts Paypal and Google Checkout let me add a new card in seconds, but I have to go and find something to buy before Amazon will let me add a new card? That’s really bad. Let me add a new credit card without ordering a book. Can any Amazon person explain to me why this is?

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.