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Gibson, William

Gibson, William

Author Biography & Works

William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.

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Books by Gibson, William

Neuromancer (1985)

Neuromancer (1985)

(The Sprawl) Start here

Case was the best hacker in the Sprawl until his employers damaged his nervous system, and now he can no longer reach cyberspace. He drifts through the criminal underworld of...

The Peripheral

The Peripheral

(The Jackpot Trilogy) Start here

In a run-down part of America's rural South where jobs are scarce, Flynne and her veteran brother, Burton, make a precarious offering security services in an online game. But in...

Count Zero

Count Zero

(The Sprawl)

Bobby Newmark, the self-styled 'Count Zero' is just getting started as a hacker, and is still an amateur. There comes a day when he is asked to test some new...

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Mona Lisa Overdrive

(The Sprawl)

Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy. Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous...

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition

(Blue Ant) Start here

One of the few books on this list that is set in the current day, Cayce Pollard reacts to logos and corporate advertising in an allergic fashion. So itâs no...

Spook Country

Spook Country

(Blue Ant)

Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.Hollis Henry is...

Zero History

Zero History

(Blue Ant)

Set among London's dark and tangled streets after the money-crash , Zero History is a thriller about the hidden webs and patterns that underlie the new century. Former rock singer...

Agency

Agency

(The Jackpot Trilogy)

“Uma jornada sensual e visualmente impressionante, repleta de demonstrações de imaginação conceitual e humor.” – The GuardianVerity Jane se mete em problemas quando a IA avançada que deveria testar desaparece...

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