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William Gibson (1) (1948–)

Autor(a) de Neuromancer

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About the Author

William Gibson was born on March 17, 1948 in Conway, South Carolina. He dropped out of high school and moved to Canada, where he eventually graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1977. He is the author of Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Peripheral, and Neuromancer, which won the Phillip K. mostrar mais Dick Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Johnny Mnemonic. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por William Gibson

Neuromancer (1984) 22,716 exemplares
Pattern Recognition (2003) 8,757 exemplares
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) 7,185 exemplares
Count Zero (1986) 7,127 exemplares
The Difference Engine (1990) 5,818 exemplares
Idoru (1996) 5,787 exemplares
Virtual Light (1993) 5,585 exemplares
Burning Chrome (1986) 5,502 exemplares
Spook Country (2007) 4,749 exemplares
All Tomorrow's Parties (1999) 4,444 exemplares
Zero History (2010) 2,475 exemplares
The Peripheral (2014) 2,280 exemplares
Agency (2020) 1,072 exemplares
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012) 705 exemplares
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) 469 exemplares
William Gibson's Neuromante (1989) — Original author — 99 exemplares
William Gibson's Alien 3 (2018) 92 exemplares
Alien III (2019) 85 exemplares
Archangel #1 (2016) 39 exemplares
Archangel #2 (of 5) (1899) 22 exemplares
Archangel #3 (of 5) (2016) 18 exemplares
Archangel #4 (of 5) (2017) 18 exemplares
Agrippa: A Book of the Dead (1972) 14 exemplares
Red Star, Winter Orbit (1995) 13 exemplares
New Rose Hotel (2015) 12 exemplares
Parco giochi con pena di morte (2001) 10 exemplares
Dogfight (novelette) 9 exemplares
Johnny Mnemonic [short story] (1981) 9 exemplares
The Belonging Kind 8 exemplares
Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1999) 6 exemplares
Cyberpunk: Antologia assoluta (2021) 6 exemplares
Hinterwäldler: Erzählung (2015) 5 exemplares
William Gibson's Alien 3 #5 (2019) 3 exemplares
Archangel #5 (of 5) 3 exemplares
William Gibson's Alien 3 #4 (2019) 3 exemplares
WILLIAM GIBSONS ARCHANGEL (2019) 2 exemplares
Jackpot 2 exemplares
Hardcore Mona Lisa (2021) 2 exemplares
Academy Leader (1991) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Dhalgren (1975) — Prefácio, algumas edições3,642 exemplares
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) — Contribuidor — 1,588 exemplares
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 796 exemplares
The Alteration (1976) — Introdução, algumas edições667 exemplares
The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) — Contribuidor — 537 exemplares
The Science Fiction Century (1997) — Contribuidor — 525 exemplares
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (1990) — Prefácio, algumas edições475 exemplares
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001) — Contribuidor — 439 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 437 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992) — Contribuidor — 409 exemplares
The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016) — Contribuidor — 400 exemplares
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) — Contribuidor — 390 exemplares
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007) — Contribuidor — 380 exemplares
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 359 exemplares
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (2010) — Contribuidor — 303 exemplares
City Come A-Walkin' (1980) — Prefácio, algumas edições259 exemplares
Year's Best SF 3 (1998) — Contribuidor — 256 exemplares
Semiotext(e) SF (1989) — Contribuidor — 247 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 223 exemplares
Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1991) — Contribuidor — 199 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987) — Contribuidor — 198 exemplares
Future on Fire (1991) — Contribuidor — 185 exemplares
The Art of the Matrix (2000) — Introdução, algumas edições173 exemplares
The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
Chaos & Cyber Culture (1994) — Contribuidor — 134 exemplares
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010) — Contribuidor — 128 exemplares
Hackers (1984) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
Cyber-killers (1997) — Contribuidor, algumas edições106 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (2008) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985) — Contribuidor — 95 exemplares
Christmas Stars (1992) — Contribuidor — 94 exemplares
Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (2010) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2000) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
The Nebula Awards Eighteen (1983) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
Visions of Wonder (1996) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 (1983) — Contribuidor — 87 exemplares
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
The Reel Stuff (1998) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Shadows 4 (1981) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 8 (1982) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Time Travelers (Fiction in the Fourth Dimension) (1997) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Timescapes (1997) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1987) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Tesseracts 3 (2002) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Tesseracts 1 (1985) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (2010) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
New Worlds (New Anthology Series , Vol 1) (1997) — Autor — 47 exemplares
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
A Yuletide Universe: Sixteen Fantastical Tales (2003) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (2017) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Twelve Tomorrows - 2014: Visionary stories of the near future (2014) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Universe 11 (1981) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick 1974 (1991) — Introdução, algumas edições25 exemplares
Simulations: 15 Tales of Virtual Reality (Citadel Twilight) (1993) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Flying Saucers Are Real (2016) — Introdução — 20 exemplares
Tesseracts 2 (1987) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
We, Robots (2010) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Wild Palms [1993 TV miniseries] (1993) — Himself — 17 exemplares
The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute (2006) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Transit Lounge (1998) — Introdução — 10 exemplares
Bifrost n°96 - la Revue des Mondes Imaginaires (2019) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Fortean Times 73 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Neuromancer--screenplay — Original book — 1 exemplar

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In this universe somehow or other one timeline seems to dominate and people can create 'stubs' -- but the stubs are REAL -- and when things go wrong, the planet and every living thing on it will suffer, so there are those who try to 'manage' the stubs. To combat all this one of these 'agents' has loosed an AI who can think and act for herself in order to see if that might make a positive difference. The tension, I think, is embedded and implicit -- the amorality of 'gaming' versus the, uh, realness of reality -- people have lost their grip on the difference. We can't manage ourselves, basicall, we're wayyy too irrational. It's not stated explicitly, but that's the message. The second half gets more exciting qua story. Gibson as always is thinking hard about many things. For me it was not so much a fun read though. ****… (mais)
 
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sibylline | 40 outras críticas | Dec 7, 2023 |
Too dense for me. Kept getting lost. Ended up okay.
 
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LibraryJamesMac | 367 outras críticas | Nov 16, 2023 |
Can you spoil a book that's older than you? Given the current state of... *gestures vaguely *... everything, I've recently become interested in the cyberpunk genre. After learning that a lot of the lingo was linked to Toronto kids on various drugs, I decided to check out the source.

I loved it. It was fun. I love the way Gibson played with language. It would be comparable to Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, but it actually impacted the way we talk today. I came of age as the Matrix released, I've sat in classrooms learning of event horizons and I've been told the Singularity is 20 years away for the last 15 years. I wonder if I had read this in high school, would I have delved deeper into software coding?

You can find wonderful summaries of this book elsewhere. But should you read it? If you liked the Matrix, if you thought the Johnny Mnemonic movie was almost good, if you like gritty retrofuturism, then absolutely. Beware, though, the women in the book, even the ones with personalities, often feel like they only exist to make sure our main character doesn't let himself die.
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embly | 367 outras críticas | Nov 4, 2023 |
I wanted to like it more. The writing is really good. Gibson can string words together. The truth is the book moved really slow and I didn't really care about the plot. Normally I would have given up in this book (the start was really slow). Only his writing style kept me going. Ultimately, it left me a little cold.
 
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cdaley | 169 outras críticas | Nov 2, 2023 |

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Obras
60
Also by
79
Membros
85,719
Popularidade
#128
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
1,307
ISBN
835
Línguas
25
Marcado como favorito
541

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