21. William Gibson Hates Futurists :: Tyeebooks.ca October 18, 2007Just don t call william gibson dystopian. The author of the cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and eight novels since, admits his invented http://thetyee.ca/Books/2007/10/18/WillGibson/

@import "/misc/drupal.css"; @import "/themes/tyee/style.css"; @import "/themes/tyee/style.css"; Sign in Register Get updates by email rss Advertise Contact ... About Us Go to choose a department.. Tyee Books Home Book Story Archive Tyee Books Blog Tyee Home News Views Mediacheck Entertainment Life Photo Essay Sports Comics BC Blogs Citizen Toolkit Series Teen Angst Poetry Too Many Georges Hockey Novel Election Stories Election Blog Battleground BC The Spin Hotbuttons Search for interview William Gibson Hates Futurists Spook Country William Gibson G.P. Putnam's Sons Gibson: 'One news cycle away' By David Beers TheTyee.ca October 18, 2007 Just don't call William Gibson dystopian. The author of the cyberpunk classic Neuromancer , and eight novels since, admits his invented worlds aren't altogether pleasant places to imagine. But "someone stuck in Darfur right now might be happy to live in them. People who say I'm dystopian are middle class pussies!" Gibson is loosening up this morning in his favourite noisy caf© on South Granville Street in his home city of Vancouver. He doesn't want to be called a futurist either, primarily because "I don't know what will happen in the future and I know that I don't know."

22. Study Guide For William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984) When Neuromancer by william gibson was first published it created a sensation. Or perhaps it would be more precise to say that it was used to create a http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html

Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer Using this Guide List of other study guides Doing research on science fiction? Check out the Science Fiction Research Bibliography. See also Literature, Cyberpunk Sci-Fi, Cyberspace, Critical Theory: An Overview Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 ... Coda Introduction When Neuromancer by William Gibson was first published it created a sensation. Or perhaps it would be more precise to say that it was used to create a sensation, for Bruce Sterling and other Gibson associates declared that a new kind of science fiction had appeared which rendered merely ordinary SF obsolete. Informed by the amoral urban rage of the punk subculture and depicting the developing human-machine interface created by the widespread use of computers and computer networks, set in the near future in decayed city landscapes like those portrayed in the film Blade Runner it claimed to be the voice of a new generation. (Interestingly, Gibson himself has said he had finished much of what was to be his body of early cyberpunk fiction before ever seeing Blade Runner.

23. William Gibson A bibliography of william gibson s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/william-gibson/

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24. Space To Think | Review | The Observer The present has recently caught up with william gibson. The great prophet of the .. william gibson s new novel Spook Country is published by Viking http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2146777,00.html

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25. Go To William Gibson's Discussion Board postings on previous books by william gibson. 602, 8531. Re Do my homework please (Psychophant). January 21, 2008 0654 AM http://williamgibsonboard.com/

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26. Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson In "Cyberspace" Cyberspace A word from the pen of william gibson, science fiction writer, circa 1984 . . . A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/sep/doherty.html

CMC Magazine September 1, 1995 / Page 4 FEATURE Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson in "Cyberspace" by Michael E. Doherty, Jr. doherm@rpi.edu The other day, I was skimming several hundred e-mail messages that accumulated while I was offline in August and found myself fascinated by a conversation taking place on chortt-L (Computers in Humanities: Overcoming Resistance to Teaching with Technology), in which colleagues were discussing the particulars of titling a book chapter involving teaching in computer-mediated environments. One participant wrote, insistently, that the phrase "CMC" would be better replaced with "Cyberspace," as abbreviations are sometimes linguistic barriers. She contended, "with cyberspace in the title, at least our audience will know what we're talking about." It is her latter claim that is most intriguing to CMC professionals. When we say "cyberspace," do we in fact "know what we're talking about"? Michael Benedikt, author of Cyberspace: First Steps , takes a crack at an over-arching definition in his 1994 book: "Cyberspace: A word from the pen of William Gibson , science fiction writer, circa 1984 . . . A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the world's computers and communication lines . . . The tablet become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world . . . A common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, canon and experiment . . . Its corridors form wherever electricity runs with intelligence . . . The realm of pure information . . . "

27. William Gibson Originator of the term cyberspace , author william gibson is also credited with introducing the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. http://www.nndb.com/people/723/000023654/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for William Gibson AKA William Ford Gibson Born: 17-Mar Birthplace: Conway, SC Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Pioneer of Cyberpunk science fiction Originator of the term "cyberspace", author William Gibson is also credited with introducing the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Gibson's best known work includes the short fiction "Johnny Mnemonic" (1981; made into a feature film starring Keanu Reeves in 1995), and "Burning Chrome" (1982, in which "cyberspace first appeared"), plus his Neuromancer trilogy and more recent novels such as Virtual Light Idoru All Tomorrow's Parties (1999), and his best-selling Pattern Recognition Born William Ford Gibson on 17 March 1948, in Conway, South Carolina, Gibson's early childhood was bathed in the legacy of his father's previous job a civilian contractor involved in construction of the Oak Ridge facility that manufactured the first atomic bomb. He grew up with TV (when few could afford it), science fiction inspired toys, a new car and the residual mythology of Oakridge security issues. When Gibson was 6, his father choked to death during a business trip, and his mother hauled the boy off to her backwards hometown in southwestern Virginia. Here his mother became chronically anxious and depressed, and young Gibson also languished, withdrawing into a private world of science fiction stories. At 15 he was sent to a boarding school in Arizona, where he was forced to emerge and confront the outer world. Just as he was finally making some progress adjusting to the changes in his life, his mother died suddenly, "the other shoe" dropping, as he called it.

28. UBC Archives - William Gibson - Description william gibson is generally recognized as the most important science fiction writer to emerge in the 1980s. His first novel, Neuromancer , is the first http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/wgibs.html

University of British Columbia Archives Inventories William Gibson fonds Compiled by Christopher Hives (1993) Table of Contents Fonds Description Title / Dates of Creation / Physical Description Biographical Sketch Scope and Content ... Catalogue entry (UBC Library) Fonds Description William Gibson fonds. 65 cm of textual materials. William Gibson is generally recognized as the most important science fiction writer to emerge in the 1980s. His first novel, Neuromancer , is the first novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards. Neuromancer , which has been considered to be one of the influential science fiction novels written in the last twenty-five years, inspired a whole new genre in science fiction writing referred to as "cyberpunk". Gibson was born in 1948 in Conway, South Carolina. He moved to Toronto in the late 1960s and then to Vancouver in the early 1970s. Gibson studied English at the University of British Columbia. He began writing science fiction short stories while at UBC. In 1979 Gibson wrote "Johnny Mnemonic" which was published in Omni magazine. An editor at Ace books encouraged him to try writing a novel. This novel would become

29. The Road To Oceania By william gibson. V ANCOUVER, British Columbia . william gibson is author of the novels Neuromancer and, most recently, Pattern Recognition. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/opinion/25GIBS.html?ei=5007&en=d57cc2565eb4ec5

30. William Gibson On NSA Wiretapping - Boing Boing They got william gibson on for a rare interview and he was fascinating, trying to place this in context as a spasm generated by humanity s inability to http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/12/william-gibson-on-ns.html

Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Suggest a Link ... Joel William Gibson on NSA wiretapping Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 12, 2006 4:18 AM permalink Open Source Radio did a special yesterday on the NSA's indiscriminate, illegal databasing of American citizens' calls, revealed in an expose in yesterday's USA Today . They got William Gibson on for a rare interview and he was fascinating, trying to place this in context as a spasm generated by humanity's inability to master its technologies. Audio starts about 34 minutes in. I can't explain it to you, but it has a powerful deja vu. When I got up this morning and read the USA Today headline, I thought the future had been a little more evenly distributed. Now we've all got some... The interesting thing about meta-projects in the sense in which I used them [in the NYT editorial] is that I don't think species know what they're about. I don't think humanity knows why we do any of this stuff. A couple hundred years down the road, when people look back at what the NSA has done, the significance of it won't be about terrorism or Iraq or the Bush administration or the American Constitution, it will be about how we're driven by emerging technologies and how we struggle to keep up with them... I'm particularly enamored of the idea of a national security "bubble..." Technologies don't emerge unless there's someone who thinks he can make a bundle by helping them emerge...

31. ArtandCulture Artist: William Gibson In 1984, the publication of william gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, singlehandedly gave birth to a new, revolutionary subgenre of science fiction http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=113

32. No Maps For These Territories - William Gibson Documentry about william gibson. News, clips, and contact information. http://www.nomaps.com/

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33. Wired 13.07: God's Little Toys God s Little Toys. Confessions of a cut paste artist. By william gibsonPage 1 of 1 . william gibson s latest novel is Pattern Recognition. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gibson.html

Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Change Address ... WIRED Science Top Stories Magazine Wired Blogs All Wired Issue 13.07 - July 2005 Subscribe to WIRED magazine and receive a FREE gift! God's Little Toys By William Gibson Page 1 of 1 Remix Planet Intro Keeping it (Un)real Making of a Remix: Robot Chicken God's Little Toys ... Remixing History When I was 13, in 1961, I surreptitiously purchased an anthology of Beat writing - sensing, correctly, that my mother wouldn't approve. Story Tools Rants + raves More Start How to right your gas-guzzling wrongs Oops! We lost your personal data BFD: the see-through semiconductor A revolution in high-rise living More Play How The Island clones other films Why going digital degrades music Sabrina Raaf's personal-space invaders More Posts The best phone sex ever! Reexamining the Turing test The homeless blog pioneer More Immediately, and to my very great excitement, I discovered Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and one William S. Burroughs - author of something called Naked Lunch , excerpted there in all its coruscating brilliance. Burroughs was then as radical a literary man as the world had to offer, and in my opinion, he still holds the title. Nothing, in all my experience of literature since, has ever been quite as remarkable for me, and nothing has ever had as strong an effect on my sense of the sheer possibilities of writing.

34. FUSION Anomaly. William Gibson They never get it right. and neither do I. william gibson Burning Chrome by william gibson, Thomas Krome - Burned Out on Loop (1998) http://fusionanomaly.net/williamgibson.html

Telex External Link Internal Link Inventory Cache William Gibson This nOde last updated January 20th, 2004 and is permanently morphing... (9 Ik (Wind) / 10 (Muan ( Owl born 1948 William Ford Gibson height: 6'6" residence: Vancouver, B.C. Canada (area code "The future has arrived; it's just not evenly distributed." by Sphero off of beams_ compilation CD on Shiva Space Technology ( Ether , having once failed as a concept, is in the process of being reinvented. Information is the ultimate mediational ether" coined the term "cyberspace" which he defined as a surf-able 3-D representation of all the computer data in the world. (For Gibson, this "consensual hallucination" primarily concerns the transactions of multinational capital.) "A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of

35. William Gibson Homepage Features a biography, reviews of some of his books, and links to articles and interviews online. http://www.filmdiva.com/mrd/gibson/

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36. IT Conversations: Tech Nation (Tech Nation with Moira Gunn; audio from IT Conversations) Moira speaks with william gibson. Listeners know him best through his novels, including his first http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail389.html

Our Supporters: Tech Nation with Moira Gunn William Gibson, author William Gibson Play now: Download MP3 Help with Listening Permalink Subscribe to Podcast ... Excerpt L_VARS.guid='http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail389.html'; loomia_ratingControl(L_VARS); [runtime: 00:18:56, 8.7 mb, recorded 2004-02-10] digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; (Tech Nation with Moira Gunn; audio from IT Conversations) Moira speaks with William Gibson. Listeners know him best through his novels, including his first Neuromancer, where he coined the word "cyberspace." Send an email message about this program to your friend(s). To Email Address (Separate multiple addresses with commas.) Your Email Address Your Name Message I thought you might be interested in listening to the following audio program from IT Conversations: 'Tech Nation' http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail389.html IT Conversations podcasts can be listened to on your computer. Simply click on the listen arrow button. For convenient listening they can also be downloaded to an MP3 player. If this podcast was indeed of interest, I encourage you to register as a guest at http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/join/getguestreginfo/ to receive bi-weekly updates about new releases. Enjoy! Moira speaks with William Gibson. Listeners know him best through his novels, including his first Neuromancer, where he coined the word "cyberspace."

37. Sci-Fi Site Of The Week: William Gibson's Yardshow An archived review of gibson s personal, now defunct website. http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue32/web.html

William Gibson's Yardshow "Guaranteed to contain no less than 40% shuck and up to 60% jive." William Gibson's Yardshow http://www.vkool.com/gibson By Loverman loverman@vkool.com Review by Craig E. Engler illiam Gibson's Yardshow is a site not so much by the founding father of cyberpunk as it is for and about him. It was created by Vkool Communications of Vancouver, B.C., the town Gibson currently calls home. Urban legend has it that Vkool approached Gibson about the project, and it was their work that finally drew him onto the Internet (although not the Luddite many think him, Gibson had purposely been avoiding the Internet for some time). The Yardshow is a combination of rich graphics and Gibson arcana, strung together in a consciously-hip array of semi-related topics. There are six main sections to the site, although only three of these actually contain much discernible information. Words in a Row is a compilation of an "auto interview" presumably this is Gibson answering his own frequently asked questions and two speeches Gibson gave in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Testimony lists the books and music that Gibson favors, while Return of the Repressed contains a short diatribe about the Atomic Disintegrator Gun, a toy "more sturdily built than many domestically-manufactured firearms available today in the United States." Of the remaining sections, Gratitude seems to be left purposefully blank, A Life Deferred is about things "coming soon" to the site, and Gravel is just plain coming soon.

38. The 'spooky' Worlds Of William Gibson - CNN.com It s an illusion, william gibson says. A trick. Fiction is a construct that plays with your mind, creating a world within. http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/10/william.gibson/index.html

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39. Salon: William Gibson, Webmaster Cyberspace s father spends some time with his progeny. http://www.salon.com/weekly/gibsonintro961014.html

40. William Gibson - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK Find information on william gibson, including popular titles and books by william gibson. Read more with Penguin UK. http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000011988,00.html

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