William Gibson
Canada (1948 - )
As the author of Neuromancer, William Gibson is credited with having coined the term "cyberspace" and envisioned the Internet-and its effects on daily life-before any such things existed. Many of his descriptions and metaphors have entered the culture as images of human relationships in the "wired" age.
Series
Novels
The Difference Engine (1990) (with Bruce Sterling)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
The Peripheral (2014)
Agency (2017)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
The Peripheral (2014)
Agency (2017)
Collections
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by William Gibson
UniverseX 11 (1981)
Shadows 4 (1981)
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
The Nebula Awards 18 (1983)
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Simulations (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Hackers (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
New Worlds (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
Year's Best SF 3 (1998)
The Reel Stuff (1998)
Shadows 4 (1981)
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
The Nebula Awards 18 (1983)
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1984)
Nebula Awards 20 (1985)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Simulations (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Hackers (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
New Worlds (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
Year's Best SF 3 (1998)
The Reel Stuff (1998)
Short stories
| The Belonging Kind (1981) (with John Shirley) | |||
| The Gernsback Continuum (1981) | |||
| Johnny Mnemonic [short story] (1981) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Burning Chrome [short story] (1982) | Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1984) | |||
| New Rose Hotel (1984) | |||
| Dogfight (1985) (with Michael Swanwick) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| The Winter Market (1986) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards (nominee) | ||
| Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City (1997) |
Awards
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Books about William Gibson
William Gibson recommends
Little Heroes (1987) Norman Spinrad "Ferocious and funny, street smart and heartfelt." | Force Majeure (1988) Bruce Wagner "As knowing a novel of late-twentieth century Hollywood as one is likely to encounter, brilliantly detailed and remorselessly funny. Mr Wagner is a major talent." | The Last Coin (1988) (Christian Trilogy, book 1) James P Blaylock "Blaylock is a singular American fabulist." | |
Passion Play (1993) Sean Stewart "Dark and nastily believable...Sean Stewart is a talent to watch." | Clipjoint (1994) (Crashcourse, book 2) Wilhelmina Baird "A pungeant, gleamy-dark street-future." | Tea from an Empty Cup (1998) (Artificial Reality Division, book 1) Pat Cadigan "Her fiction is ambitious and brilliantly executed. Cadigan is a major talent." | |
The Twist (1999) Richard Calder "Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism." | As Above, So Below (2002) Rudy Rucker "A delightful book, one that carries us through the sixteenth-century picture-plane at extraordinary angles, illuminating Bruegel, his art and his world, with warmth and candor." | Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) Cory Doctorow "Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar - a hard combination to beat." | |
The Zenith Angle (2004) Bruce Sterling "A darkly comic fable of info-war, the black budget, uber-geek idealism and the politics of Homeland Insecurity. Sterling's grasp of the surfaces of contemporary reality is deftly prehensile; his understanding of what underlies those surfaces is both compelling and important." | The John Varley Reader (2004) John Varley "Quite literally unforgettable." | Anansi Boys (2005) (American Gods, book 2) Neil Gaiman "A writer of rare perception and endless imagination." | |
Strange Itineraries (2005) Tim Powers "Tim Powers is a brilliant writer." | Butcher Bird (2007) Richard Kadrey "[Kadrey's] one of the hipper people in the field, that's for sure." | Halting State (2007) (Halting State, book 1) Charles Stross "As keenly observant of our emergent society as it is of our emergent technologies. Halting State is one extremely smart species of fun." | |
Zoo City (2010) Lauren Beukes "Lauren Beukes is very, *very* good... it feels effortless, utterly accomplished." | Everything is Broken (2011) John Shirley "One of our best and most singular writers. A powerhouse of ideas and imagery." | Tropic of Kansas (2017) Christopher Brown "Futurist as provocateur! The world is sheer batshit genius . . . a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment." | |
Autonomous (2017) Annalee Newitz "Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV - and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling." |
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