Dec 9, 2019 · Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to a strange new world: the present. Instead of fantasizing about future worlds, Gibson sets his …

Interview To William Gibson QUESTION: Every month seems to see some weird riff from a Gibson novel make the transition from science fiction into reality. Whilst hailed as a visionary both by techno-nerds and sci-fi geeks alike, Gibson has regarded the hype with a healthy combination of detached interest and dry irony, and remains modest about

Mar 5, 2015 · We interview sci-fi author William Gibson about his line with Buzz Rickson's, vintage, and how the internet has changed men's fashion.

Today, Gibson is lanky and somewhat shy, avuncular and slow to speak—more what you would expect from the lapsed science-fiction enthusiast he was in 1972 than the genre-vanquishing hero he has become since the publication of his first novel, the hallucinatory hacker thriller Neuromancer, in 1984.

Jan 24, 2012 · William Gibson famously coined the term “cyberspace,” and gave us a singular vision of the future in early cyberpunk novels Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

In 1984 William Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, burst onto the scene of contemporary science fiction like a super nova. The energy, heat, and shock waves from that explosion predictably had its most immediate impact on the relatively in sular SF field.

Oct 28, 2014 · Science fiction author William Gibson’s work, from cyberpunk classic Neuromancer to his more recent, less overtly futuristic novels, is usually more concerned with smart cultural …

Mar 23, 2020 · Gibson talks about his first WorldCon in 1981 as “an adult SF writer,” on a panel with Sterling. Elliott asks whether the novel Difference Engine is the beginning of a new tack, and Gibson says that cyberspace is not only his word (introduced to fiction by …

Gibson changed gears, collaborating with Bruce Sterling for The Difference Engine (1990), a Victorian alternate history, and published Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a poem about his childhood (text now readily available on the web). A near-future SF trilogy followed: Virtual Light (1993), Idoru (1986), and All Tomorrow's Parties (1999).

Dec 31, 2014 · Gibson says computers are “the dominant scientific metaphor of our age,” as the Freudian metaphor was steam engines. He tries to “minimize the input,” worrying about “information sickness.” He talks about cyberpunk as a “marketing category,” and says, “I feel like it trivializes what I do.”