William Gibson will always be the cyberpunk prophet, the man whose Hugo-winning 1984 debut novel Neuromancer, about a future underworld dystopia where radically advanced computing possibilities exist in tandem with sex, drugs and political skullduggery, introduced the notion of “cyberspace” to the public and predicted the emergence of a world wide web, along with computers of ever-increasing intelligence and dubious motive. In the post-September 11th world, however, his attention has increasingly...
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gritsy
Brooklyn, NY
August 2010
SEP 25, 2010 07:16 PM
Wow!
I first got hooked on Gibson's work when i read Virtual Light.
There began a love of realist sci-fi...and bike couriers.
Gibson is a nothing short of a prophet; brilliant writing!
I love Gibson. I just finished Spook Country last night. That was a fantastic interview, and I typically don't have the patience to sit through an interview. Oh, and I found out a new book came out. Huzzah!
ViquiV
STAFF
Santa Monica, CA
SEP 09, 2010 06:00 AM