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Video: Upstairs at the Square: William Gibson and Martha WainwrightOriginal at truveo.com
• Thu, Apr 16
The renowned "cyberpunk" author and innovative recording artist joined forces (and host Katherine Lanpher) onstage at our Union Square store in ... www.truveo.com
Video: William Gibson versus Second LifeOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Oct 11
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By rss@youtube.com (thskza) An interview with author William Gibson about his recent encounters with virtual worlds, following a publicity event in Second Life for his book Spook Country. Produced by Darren Alexander and Ian Daffern www.iandaffern.ca Keywords: gibson williamgibson cyberpunk spook spookcountr...
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Exclusive Interview with Jen Thym of the Dynamic Web Series LUMINA
Original at Small Screen Scoop
• Mon, Nov 23
Books - My favorite genre is the brief late 80's/early 90's cyberpunk movement by writers like William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, and Neal Stephenson. ...
PODCAST: Cory Doctorow talks Makers, 3-D printers, and Disney at Harvard Book ...
Original at The Phoenix
• Wed, Nov 18
Doctorow on computers as literary devices in cyberpunk: "I think William Gibson is a genius and a treasure to the human race, but if I were designing a ...
20th Century Science Fiction and Fantasy
Original at Sequential Tart
• Mon, Nov 16
Kill Switch", was written by cyberpunk master William Gibson. (I got to meet him once — very sweet fellow!) The episode featured a cute goth hacker, ...
Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
Original at io9
• Thu, Nov 12
An ambitious new work by Brody Condon, Case is a contemporary adaptation of the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. ...
Original at imdb.com
• Mon, Sep 28
Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) has a head like a hard drive and tries to save mankind with Ice-T in this William Gibson cyberpunk story with Dolph ... imdb.com
Quicky > Otaku Culture - Steampunks!Original at mtviggy.com
• Mon, Sep 7
” started as a literary step-child of cyberpunk in the 80s, made popular by the novel The Difference Engine by top sci-fi authors William Gibson ... mtviggy.com
Capsule Tour
Original at strimoo.com
• Thu, Aug 20
hotel Hotel Riverside in Asakusa Tokyo As a William Gibson and Cybepunk fan I just had to try it for a night asakusa capsule cyberpunk hotel japan ... strimoo.com
Twitter: hogyan vegyünk részt az iráni tüntetésben?
Original at HVG
• Tue, Jun 16
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 ...
Down with the Muslims: Assessing the Blame Game
Original at tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com
• Thu, Jun 4
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? ...
Product design from the Godfather of Cyberpunk
Original at core77.com's design blog
• Fri, May 15
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MUSIC JUNKIE Review: The Future Will Come
Original at Brooklyn Daily Eagle
• Thu, May 7
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. ...
William Gibson discusses Spook Country and Cyberpunk on Vimeo
Original at vodpod.com
• Wed, May 6
An interview with William Gibson about his latest book, Spook Country. He discusses the concept featured in the novel -of locative art as well as ... vodpod.com
William Gibson: No Maps for These TerritoriesOriginal at it.truveo.com
• Fri, Apr 24
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
Dope Stars Inc: CRIMINAL INTENTS & MORNING STAR -- CD Review
Original at FEARnet.com
• Fri, Apr 17
PA about the status of their ambitious new concept album, based on the dark techno fantasies of author William Gibson and dystopian sci-fi flicks like Blade Runner – the ultimate realization of the band's self-proclaimed “cyberpunk” aesthetic. ...
Romantically Neat Cyber-Punk
Original at New York Press
• Wed, Apr 15
NY As both a sci-fi and an indie drama, it strives to complicate an otherwise typical cyberpunk plot by turning William Gibson’s usual cynical slacker protagonist into a Mexican migrant worker looking to earn some scratch for his podunk family. ...
Benny Hell waxes poetic on William Gibson and the joys of LSD
Original at FANGORIA
• Fri, Apr 10
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 ...
Book Review Spotlight: Walter Jon Williams This Is Not a Game.
Original at Library Journal
• Thu, Apr 2
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, ...
Prophet and loss
Original at Herald de Paris
• Wed, Mar 25
France Along with writers such as William Gibson and Pat Cadigan, he drove the take-up of the cyberpunk literary genre which both fomented and predicted contemporary society’s heady mix of technology and culture. But he is worried that his novel-writing days ...
Richard Poplak does SXSW: Liars, thieves, tricksters and honest men
Original at network.nationalpost.com
• Tue, Mar 17
Canada Never was this more obvious than in the annual, highly anticipated Bruce Sterling address. The sci-fi master’s brand of eighties-era cyberpunk has become, along with William Gibson’s work, a self-fulfilling prophesy, and he’s none too chuffed with this ...
Plantando bombas mentales
Original at BBC Mundo
• Sun, Mar 15
UK Junto con escritores como William Gibson y Pat Cadigan, dirigió el despegue del género literario cyberpunk, que fomentó y predijo la embriagadora mezcla de tecnología y cultura de la sociedad contemporánea. Sin embargo, teme que sus días de escritor de ...
Bruce Sterling - Prophet and loss
Original at BBC News
• Thu, Mar 12
UK Along with writers such as William Gibson and Pat Cadigan, he drove the take-up of the cyberpunk literary genre which both fomented and predicted contemporary society's heady mix of technology and culture. But he is worried that his novel-writing days ...
Serious games for serious health problems
Original at PhysOrg.com
• Fri, Mar 6
• 1 related articles
VA You get this even in the project’s name, which is a nod to William Gibson’s 1984 futuristic classic Neuromancer, widely considered the father of cyberpunk literature. The team behind the project come from a range of backgrounds in academia and industry ...
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Serious games for serious health problems
Original at cordis.europa.eu
• Thu, Mar 5
• 1 related articles
Belgium You get this even in the project’s name, which is a nod to William Gibson’s 1984 futuristic classic Neuromancer, widely considered the father of cyberpunk literature. The team behind the project come from a range of backgrounds in academia and industry ...
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Bruce Sterling looks at a future world destroyed by technology in ...
Original at Austin American-Statesman
• Sat, Feb 21
TX Whereas his cyberpunk colleague William Gibson structures his books like B-movies, and has several film adaptations to show for it, Sterling's stories are more like a cabinet of curiosities. "The Caryatids" stuffs plenty of brilliant science-fiction ...
"The Caryatids": four clones need a home
Original at Seattle Times
• Thu, Feb 19
United States Chairman Bruce" achieved prominence as one of the theoretical masterminds of cyberpunk, an unapologetic apologist for the 1970s science-fiction movement whose acknowledged crown prince was William Gibson. Like Gibson, Sterling turned away from writing ...
Dope Stars Inc. Reveal CRIMINAL INTENTS
Original at FEARnet.com
• Tue, Feb 10
PA - According to the Metropolis website, the EP’S cyberpunk concept depicts a world practically torn from the pages of a William Gibson novel, “where the masses ...
Happy Holidays!
Original at other-worlds-cafe.com
• Thu, Dec 25
By Chip Question 1: In this classic short story by Arthur C. Clarke, the remnants of a now-destroyed civilization are found within the Phoenix Nebula, the leftovers of a supernova that was once visible from Earth. Name it! Question 23: “Cyber-Claus” is this cyberpunk author’s contribution to Ch...
Ten Great Sci-Fi Stories That Deserve to Be Films
Original at Film School Rejects
• Thu, Dec 11
OH - Dec 11, 2008 “Neuromancer” (William Gibson, 1984). This cyberpunk story has tried to make it to the big screen a few times, but never quite got there. ...
Ballardian » ‘Unblinking, clinical’: From Ballard to cyberpunk
Original at Ballardian
• Wed, Nov 26
Rudy Rucker’s wonderful reminiscences about the early days of cyberpunk (’it felt like being an early Beat’), Bruce Sterling (who ‘loved all things Soviet’) and William Gibson (the man with the ‘flexible-looking head’) got me thinking ...
Six Writers Speculate on Science Fiction's Future [Futurism]
Original at io9
• Fri, Nov 14
By Lauren Davis Chown ultimately concludes that science fiction as we know it may change, but it will be an evolution rather than a distinction. And cyberpunk author William Gibson seems inclined to agree, noting that science fiction’s value has less ...
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Original at ScienceBlogs
• Fri, Nov 7
- Nov 7, 2008 William Gibson revolutionized the world of science fiction with his dark and gritty but somehow impossibly cool cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. ...
The Sky Above the Port [Built on Facts]
Original at ScienceBlogs
• Fri, Nov 7
By Matt Springer none@example.com William Gibson revolutionized the world of science fiction with his dark and gritty but somehow impossibly cool cyberpunk novel Neuromancer . Dystopias have always been a staple of science fiction, but in this case the dystopia didn't ...
Internaut | Floating data centers: Good for government?
Original at GCN.com
• Thu, Oct 30
DC - If you're a fan of cyberpunk novelist William Gibson, you probably already know that moving data facilities offshore, literally, is looming somewhere in our ...
William Gibson bags and coats
Original at Boing Boing
• Tue, Oct 14
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...
Cyberpunk Ergonomics: Best Position to Jack In
Original at Science Fiction Observer
• Mon, Oct 13
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...
A $530 Laptop Case? That's Not Punk, It's Cyberpunk
Original at mediabistro.com
• Mon, Oct 13
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...
Science fiction doesn't have to be gloomy, does it?
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Wed, Sep 24
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 ...
Please don't tell William Gibson this exists.
Original at MetaFilter
• Fri, Sep 5
By Slap*Happy It's also a socially-conscious cyberpunk movie musical, written, directed, scored and costumed by people in 2008 who have decided that 1996 is as far as the future goes, thanks... so it's also a goth/raver socially conscious cyberpunk ...
POPJOURNALISM.CA | William Gibson, Spook Country
Original at Popjournalism
• Mon, Jul 28
By Ian Goodwillie The follow up to his 2003 best-seller Pattern Recognition has finally made its appearance in paperback and with that arrival comes another binge of cyberpunk from the Godfather of the genre, William Gibson. Spook Country, his ninth ...
Is The Net Good For Writers?
Original at 10 Zen Monkeys
• Fri, Oct 5
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.
Fathers' Day
Original at Mudville Gazette
• Fri, Jun 29
By Greyhawk Just finished reading Virtual Light, an early 90's sci-fi book by William Gibson. Gibson is credited with creating the "cyberpunk" sub-genre; I'd read his Neuromancer trilogy some time ago and enjoyed it. Virtual Light is the first book of another trilogy, but I don't know if I'll bother w...
Rewriring the Future
Original at Science Fiction Book Club
• Mon, May 21
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.