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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Upstairs at the Square: William Gibson and Martha WainwrightVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at truveo.com external link    Thu, Apr 16

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The renowned "cyberpunk" author and innovative recording artist joined forces (and host Katherine Lanpher) onstage at our Union Square store in ... www.truveo.com

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Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Oct 11    4 related articles

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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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Rate Exclusive Interview with Jen Thym of the Dynamic Web Series LUMINA

Original at Small Screen Scoop external link    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. ...

Rate PODCAST: Cory Doctorow talks Makers, 3-D printers, and Disney at Harvard Book ...

Original at The Phoenix external link    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 ...

Rate 20th Century Science Fiction and Fantasy

Original at Sequential Tart external link    Mon, Nov 16

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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, ...

Rate Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly

Original at io9 external link    Thu, Nov 12

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

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Original at imdb.com external link    Mon, Sep 28

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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

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Original at mtviggy.com external link    Mon, Sep 7

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” 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

Rate Capsule Tour

Original at strimoo.com external link    Thu, Aug 20

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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

Rate Twitter: hogyan vegyünk részt az iráni tüntetésben?

Original at HVG external link    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 ...

Rate Down with the Muslims: Assessing the Blame Game

Original at tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com external link    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? ...

Rate Product design from the Godfather of Cyberpunk

Original at core77.com's design blog external link    Fri, May 15

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Rate MUSIC JUNKIE Review: The Future Will Come

Original at Brooklyn Daily Eagle external link    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. ...

Rate William Gibson discusses Spook Country and Cyberpunk on Vimeo

Original at vodpod.com external link    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

Rate William Gibson: No Maps for These TerritoriesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at it.truveo.com external link    Fri, Apr 24

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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

Rate Dope Stars Inc: CRIMINAL INTENTS & MORNING STAR -- CD Review

Original at FEARnet.com external link    Fri, Apr 17

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 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. ...

Rate Romantically Neat Cyber-Punk

Original at New York Press external link    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. ...

Rate Benny Hell waxes poetic on William Gibson and the joys of LSD

Original at FANGORIA external link    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 ...

Rate Book Review Spotlight: Walter Jon Williams This Is Not a Game.

Original at Library Journal external link    Thu, Apr 2

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 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, ...

Rate Prophet and loss

Original at Herald de Paris external link    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 ...

Rate Richard Poplak does SXSW: Liars, thieves, tricksters and honest men

Original at network.nationalpost.com external link    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 ...

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Original at BBC Mundo external link    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 ...

Rate Bruce Sterling - Prophet and loss

Original at BBC News external link    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 ...

Rate Serious games for serious health problems

Original at PhysOrg.com external link    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 ...

Rate Serious games for serious health problems

Original at cordis.europa.eu external link    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 ...

Rate Bruce Sterling looks at a future world destroyed by technology in ...

Original at Austin American-Statesman external link    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 ...

Rate "The Caryatids": four clones need a home

Original at Seattle Times external link    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 ...

Rate Dope Stars Inc. Reveal CRIMINAL INTENTS

Original at FEARnet.com external link    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 ...

Rate Happy Holidays!

Original at other-worlds-cafe.com external link    Thu, Dec 25

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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...

Rate Ten Great Sci-Fi Stories That Deserve to Be Films

Original at Film School Rejects external link    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. ...

Rate Ballardian » ‘Unblinking, clinical’: From Ballard to cyberpunk

Original at Ballardian external link    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 ...

Rate Six Writers Speculate on Science Fiction's Future [Futurism]

Original at io9 external link    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 external link    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. ...

Rate The Sky Above the Port [Built on Facts]

Original at ScienceBlogs external link    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 ...

Rate Internaut | Floating data centers: Good for government?

Original at GCN.com external link    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 ...

Rate William Gibson bags and coats

Original at Boing Boing external link    Tue, Oct 14

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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...

Rate Cyberpunk Ergonomics: Best Position to Jack In

Original at Science Fiction Observer external link    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...

Rate A $530 Laptop Case? That's Not Punk, It's Cyberpunk

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Mon, Oct 13

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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...

Rate Science fiction doesn't have to be gloomy, does it?

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    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 ...

Rate Please don't tell William Gibson this exists.

Original at MetaFilter external link    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 ...

Rate POPJOURNALISM.CA | William Gibson, Spook Country

Original at Popjournalism external link    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 ...

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Rate Is The Net Good For Writers?

Original at 10 Zen Monkeys external link    Fri, Oct 5

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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.

Rate Fathers' Day

Original at Mudville Gazette external link    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...

Rate Rewriring the Future

Original at Science Fiction Book Club external link    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.

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