William Gibson

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William Ford Gibson, född 17 mars 1948 i USA, är en science fiction-författare som bor i Kanada och som anses vara en av de viktigaste figurerna inom cyberpunk.

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Bibliografi

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Romaner

Neuromancer (1984; del 1 i Sprawl-trilogin)
Count Zero (1986; del 2 i Sprawl-trilogin)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988; del 3 i Sprawl-trilogin)
The Difference Engine (1990; med Bruce Sterling)
Virtual Light (1993; del 1 i Bridge-trilogin)
Idoru (1996; del 2 i Bridge-trilogin)
All Tomorrow's Parties (1999; del 3 i Bridge-trilogin)
Pattern Recognition (2003)

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Samlingar

Burning Chrome (1986), som inkluderar:
- Johnny Mnemonic (1981)
- The Gernsback Continuum (1981)
- Fragments of a Hologram Rose
- The Belonging Kind, (1981; med John Shirley)
- Hinterlands (1981)
- Red Star, Winter Orbit (med Bruce Sterling)
- New Rose Hotel (1981)
- The Winter Market (1985)
- Dogfight (1985; med Michael Swanwick)
- Burning Chrome (1982)

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Citat

"As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed." (intervju 30 november 1999 i NPR (http://www.npr.org/))
"A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void....The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there." (från Neuromancer (1984))

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