His most recent novels, The Peripheral (2014) and Agency (2020), returned to a more overt engagement with technology and recognizable science fiction themes. These works saw his name reach mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. Following the turn of the century and the events of 9/11, Gibson emerged with a string of increasingly realist novels- Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), and Zero History (2010)-set in a roughly contemporary world. In the 1990s, Gibson composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which explored the sociological developments of near-future urban environments, postindustrial society, and late capitalism. These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.Īfter expanding on the story in Neuromancer with two more novels ( Count Zero in 1986 and Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk. Gibson coined the term " cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story " Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans-a "combination of lowlife and high tech" -and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Caparula commented that "This is vital reading harsh, gritty, complex, visionary.Nebula, Hugo, Philip K. Michael Caparula reviewed Burning Chrome in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 45 is a Russian military killer program." 45 and try the big heist, only Gibson's punks are computer jockeys and the. Still, l like the story: it's that one about the young punks who get hold of a. Contents ĭave Langford reviewed Burning Chrome for White Dwarf #83, and stated that "the fine title piece's hair-raising cyberspace jaunt is echoed all too closely in Neuromancer. Many of the ideas and themes explored in the short stories were later revisited in Gibson's popular Sprawl trilogy. Most of the stories take place in Gibson's Sprawl, a shared setting for most of his early cyberpunk work. Burning Chrome (1986) is a collection of short stories written by William Gibson.
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