William Gibson. 15 books (LIT)
Date: 08 May 2011, 01:30
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List: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead).lit Alien 3 (script).lit All Tomorrow's Parties.lit Bridge 01 - Virtual Light.lit Bridge 02 - Idoru.lit Bridge Trilogy 1 - Virtual Light.lit Bridge Trilogy 3 - All Tomorrows Parties.lit Bridge Trilogy.lit Burning Chrome.lit Count Zero.lit CyberPunk 2 - Count Zero.lit Difference Engine, The.lit Gibson, William & Sterling, Bruce - The Difference Engine.lit Disney Land With The Death Penalty.lit Fragemtns Of A Hologram Rose.lit Johnny Mnemonic.lit Mona Lisa Overdrive.lit Neuromancer.lit Sprawl Trilogy 1 - Neuromancer.lit Sprawl Trilogy 3 - Mona Lisa Overdrive.lit William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948(1948-03-17), Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, partly due to coining the term "cyberspace" in 1982, and partly because of the success of his first novel, Neuromancer, which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since its publication in 1984. In 1967, Gibson went to Canada "to avoid the Vietnam war draft", appearing that year in a CBC newsreel item about hippie subculture in Yorkville, Toronto. He settled in Vancouver, British Columbia five years later and began to write science fiction. Although he retains U.S. citizenship, Gibson has spent most of his adult life in Canada, and still lives in the Vancouver area. Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the so-called science-fiction "triple crown" (the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award). It was Gibson's first novel and the first of The Sprawl trilogy. Neuromancer tells the story of Case, an out-of-work computer hacker hired by an unknown patron to participate in a seemingly impossible crime. The novel examines the concepts of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, multinational corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state and cyberspace (a computer network called the matrix) long before these ideas became fashionable in popular culture. Gibson also explores the dehumanizing effects of a world dominated by ubiquitous and cheap technology, writing of a future where violence and the free market are the only things upon which one may rely, and in which the dystopian elements of society are counterbalanced by an energy and diversity that is perversely attractive (and provides some of the book's appeal). PassWord: books_for_all
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