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William Gibson

Canada (1948 - )

About William Gibson

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

Sprawl
1. Neuromancer (1984)
2. Count Zero (1986)
3. Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)

Bridge
1. Virtual Light (1993)
2. Idoru (1996)
3. All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)

Novels

The Difference Engine (1990) (with Bruce Sterling)
Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story (1995)
Pattern Recognition (2002)
Spook Country (2007)

Collections

Burning Chrome (1986)

Anthologies containing stories by William Gibson

Short stories

	The Belonging Kind (1981) (with John Shirley)
	The Gernsback Continuum (1981)
	Johnny Mnemonic (1981)		Nebula (nominee)
	Burning Chrome (1982)		Nebula (nominee)
	Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1984)
	New Rose Hotel (1984)
	Dogfight (1985) (with Michael Swanwick)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Winter Market (1986)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City (1997)

Awards

	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1982) : Johnny Mnemonic
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1983) : Burning Chrome
	Philip K Dick Award Best Novel winner (1984) : Neuromancer
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1985) : Neuromancer
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1985) : Neuromancer
	Hugo Best Novel winner (1985) : Neuromancer
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1986) : Dogfight
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1986) : Dogfight
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1987) : The Winter Market
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1987) : The Winter Market
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1987) : Count Zero
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1987) : Count Zero
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1989) : Mona Lisa Overdrive
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1989) : Mona Lisa Overdrive
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1992) : The Difference Engine
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1992) : The Difference Engine
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1994) : Virtual Light
	British Science Fiction Association Best Novel nominee (2003) : Pattern Recognition
	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel nominee (2004) : Pattern Recognition

Books about William Gibson

William Gibson (1992) by Lance Olsen
Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson (2000) by Dani Cavallaro

Links to other websites

williamgibsonbooks.com

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) (Elfin) James P Blaylock "Blaylock is a singular American fabulist."
Passion Play (1992) 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."	Psykosis (1995) (Crashcourse, book 3) Wilhelmina Baird "A pungent, gleamy dark street-future."
Chaos Come Again (1996) Wilhelmina Baird "A killer eye for twisted technological detail."	Mockingbird (1998) Sean Stewart "Sean Stewart is a talent to watch."	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."	Impakto (2001) Richard Calder "Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism."	As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel (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."
Lord Soho: A Time Opera (2002) Richard Calder "Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism."	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."	Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) Cory Doctorow "Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar - a hard combination to beat."
Strange Itineraries (2004) Tim Powers "Tim Powers is a brilliant writer."	The John Varley Reader (2004) John Varley "Quite literally unforgettable."	Anansi Boys (2005) Neil Gaiman "A writer of rare perception and endless imagination."
Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion (2007) Richard Kadrey "[Kadrey's] one of the hipper people in the field, that's for sure."	Halting State (2007) 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."

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