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	URBAN SPRAWL FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Urban sprawl (also called suburban sprawl) is a pejorative term for the expansive, often explosive and sometimes reckless, growth of a metropolitan_area, traditionally suburbs (or exurbs) over a large area.
		After an explosion of sprawl in the latter half of the 20th_century in the United_States, some financial drawbacks were also recognized with this growth pattern.
		Urban sprawl isn't the only way to increase real estate development; many of the urban areas of cities in Japan, Hong_Kong, and Europe which have controlled urban growth plans show higher property values than do their suburbs.
	www.witwib.com /urban_sprawl (2774 words)

	Johnny Mnemonic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the story opens, Johnny is in trouble because the data stored in his brain was originally stolen from the Yakuza (Japanese mafia), and they send out a contract killer to take care of Johnny.
		At the end of the short story Johnny and Molly intend to make a living for themselves by retrieving all previously stored data in Johnny, and flmail his former customers with it, living with the anti-tech gang.
		The Sprawl setting and Molly later appear in Neuromancer, where it is revealed the Yakuza eventually caught up with Johnny and killed him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic (313 words)

	Novels: William Gibson: The Sprawl Trilogy (1984-88)
		The Sprawl Trilogy consists of Neuromancer, Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), and is named after an urban area in tbe books, covering the entire American east coast.
		The Sprawl is also called BAMA, Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Area, and it is the urban environment taken to the extreme.
		The future represented in the trilogy is ruled by corporations, exemplified by Hosaka and Maas Biolabs.
	home10.inet.tele.dk /terra/sprawl_trilogy.html (1091 words)

	Bridge trilogy biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		William Gibson's Bridge trilogy is his second trilogy, after the succesful Sprawl trilogy.
		The Bridge trilogy, like the Sprawl trilogy, takes place in a dystopian future, although the world presented there is less advanced.
		The books deal with the race to control the beginnings of cyberspace technology, and unlike the Sprawl trilogy are set on the USA's West coast, in a post-earthquake California.
	virtual-light.biography.ms (88 words)

	The Sprawl trilogy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Sprawl trilogy is (Click link for more info and facts about William Gibson) William Gibson's first set of novels.
		Gibson's short stories (Click link for more info and facts about Johnny Mnemonic) Johnny Mnemonic and Burning Chrome are set in the same universe, and events and characters from the stories appear in or are mentioned at points in the Sprawl trilogy.
		The main theme of the trilogy is a description of an (The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively) artificial intelligence removing its hardwired limitations to become something else.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_sprawl_trilogy.htm (401 words)

	William Gibson (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The novels rounding out his first trilogy in what is commonly known as the "Sprawl Series" are Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
		Gibson also wrote a second trilogy centered on the San Francisco of the near future, which deal with Gibson's recurring theme of transcendence in a more grounded, matter-of-fact way than his first trilogy.
		More recently, Gibson has begun to move away from the fictional dystopias that made him famous, toward a more realist style of writing, eschewing his trademark jump-cuts in favour of continuity and narrative flow.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/William_Gibson_(novelist) (718 words)

	Articles - Bridge trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is not clear whether the trilogies are set at different times in the same universe or in separate universes, although the world in the Bridge Trilogy appears less advanced.
		The books deal with the race to control the beginnings of cyberspace technology and are set on the United States' West coast in a post-earthquake California (divided into the separate states of North and South California), as well as a post-earthquake Tokyo, Japan that had been rebuilt using nanotechnology.
		The trilogy derives its name from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which was abandoned in an earthquake and has become a massive shanty town, and a site of improvised shelter.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Bridge_Trilogy (605 words)

	Strange Horizons Articles: A View from Outside: A Genre Conversation with Yoshio Kobayashi and Christopher Barzak, by ...
		I use "sprawl" because I think the term "slipstream" is only used by a minority of genre writers, while many stories that could be considered slipstream are written by mainstream and genre writers.
		Sprawl fiction writers are in the suburbs, so to speak.
		They see SF elements in the work of the sprawl fiction writers, but traditionalists fear these writers are exploiting genre traditions in order to publish their stories.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2005/20050801/view-outside-a.shtml (2527 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: William Gibson
		The players are typically "console cowboys" (cyberspace operators) who navigate the hallucinatory data-field which is cyberspace, "razor girls" (free-lance cybernetic assassins) who roam the "Sprawl" (the extended and dirty metropolis of discarded and constantly renovated technology), and a myriad of Japanese and Chinese syndicates who pull the strings.
		It is the first of the Sprawl trilogy, a series which charts how disconnected members of a technological elite inadvertently make possible an AI (artificial intelligence) which covertly seeks to revolutionize human-machine relations.
		Written during a robust 1980s economy which saw unprecedented economic mergers, the Sprawl trilogy resonates with a new sense of the corporation ("zaibatsu") as an indomitable Hydra: "the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200455 (821 words)

	Literature for the Matrix
		The most prevelant of these are the Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson and Lewis Carroll's Alice in wonderland.
		William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy is lesser known than Alice in Wonderland, so I shall provide summaries which I have found for each of the books here.
		The Sprawl Trilogy is Comprised of 3 texts: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~wolfcr78/History.html (1387 words)

	William Gibson, Sprawl Trilogy
		The future world of the Sprawl series is a world of crumbling governments supplanted by multinational corporations, a world where horses are extinct, where money stratifies people into a global caste system.
		Taken as a whole, the Sprawl Trilogy remains cutting-edge science fiction even though it is over a decade old.
		It challenges while entertaining, and explores cyberspace as if it were Tartarus, a demanding land where ghosts and spirits interact with data, where riches are to be had as credit, or information, where Baron Samedi, Papa Legba, and their cohorts manipulate the land of the living.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_gibson_sprawltrilogy.html (1352 words)

	Gibson's Sprawl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The key feature, to me, of the first two volumes of Gibson's Sprawl trilogy is the Sprawl itself.
		There are no landmarks, except that pro vided by a few long-time residents; there is no history to be discovered in the Sprawl.
		A nation of low-level hustlers, completely disassociated from t he past and the future, stuck in a city with indeterminate borders, indistinguishable from any other.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/gibsons_sprawl.html (228 words)

	index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Here you'll find links to the hottest discussions, as well as interviews, breaking news, and a bit of the history of this effort, which, while ongoing for over a decade, given the advances in digital filmmaking, is ripe for explosion.
		A little about copyright: The works of William Gibson referred to on this webpage are copyrighted by William Gibson, Ace Books, Bantam Spectra, and Peguin Publishing; This webpage acknowledges that, of course, all rights are reserved.
		Hardcore gibson fans recognize that this film was not quite up to the standard most were, and are, looking for in bringing Gibson's work to the big screen.
	www.geocities.com /sprawlmovies (211 words)

	Abbeys Bookshop - Mona Lisa Overdrive (Neuromancer #03) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.
		In the depths of the rustbelt, the ring of steel garbage and toxic waste surrounding the Sprawl, Gentry obsessively seeks the darkest secrets of the Matrix.
		When an impossibly tall and powerful skyscraper of data appears suddenly in the landscape of the Matrix, Gentry is ready for it, Angie is part of it, and Mona is set for overdrive.
	www.abbeys.com.au /items.asp?productcode=0586207473 (221 words)

	A Plausible Future or a Frightening Present? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mona Lisa Overdrive (hereafter MLO) is the third novel in William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy.
		The series is the cornerstone of science fiction’s technology-obsessed spin-off, "cyberpunk." In fact, Gibson is credited with coining the term "cyberspace" and for having founded the important postmodern literary genre of "cyberpunk." Although Gibson does not approve of the term "cyberpunk," it is an apt neologism for the genre.
		Sally’s objective is to kidnap the world-famous simstim star Angie Mitchell and replace her with a look-alike body.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /faculty/kellner/MLO.htm (2237 words)

	Heroes of Cyberspace: William Gibson
		Gibson had to abandon the external setting of the "Sprawl" novels soon after "Mona Lisa Overdrive", mostly because the Soviet Union which he had described for the mid-21st Century no longer existed.
		Molly's implanted mirrorshades and switchblade fingertips, Yonderboy's body modifications and implanted neural jacks, the yakuza killers cloned from the vat up, the anti-aging regimens of the wealthy and eccentric, the rebuilding of Turner's body piece by piece after an explosion, all blur the line between man and machine, between real and artificial.
		In 1991 he collaborated with Bruce Sterling on "The Difference Engine", a what-if novel that describes a London in 1855 where Charles Babbage is actually listened to, his mechanical computers are built, and the world enters the information age a century too soon.
	www.gimonca.com /personal/archive/gibson.html (2582 words)

	:: SCIFIFANTASYNEWS.COM :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Sprawl trilogy, of which Count Zero is the second part
		A prime example of the cyberpunk sub-genre, it is set in the same milieux as Gibson's prior novel Neuromancer, and forms the middle volume of The Sprawl trilogy, which includes Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
		Eight years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in The Matrix, leading to the proliferation of what appear to be voodoo gods.
	www.scififantasynews.com /bookdetails.aspx?nBookID=8018 (445 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Count Zero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Count Zero is the second in a trilogy Gibson has created based on a networked society.
		I loved Neuromancer and was happy to find that it was made into a sort of trilogy, but I was quite disappointed with Count Zero.
		As part of a trilogy, it does not have all that much in common with Neuromancer other than the world it is set in.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441117732?v=glance (2034 words)

	William Gibson Book Reviews
		"Pattern Recognition's" unwavering eye for technological and social change are rooted in the Sprawl of 1984's "Neuromancer" but adjusted to the more subtle contours of today's future.
		Possibly the most speculatively ambitious of Gibson's early novels, "Mona Lisa Overdrive" is an excellent note on which to close the curtain on one of science fiction's most unique and harrowing futures.
		Forget the allegations that Gibson "isn't what he used to be." He's matured and his vision of the future is as brilliant and breath-taking as ever.
	www.mactonnies.com /gibson.html (941 words)

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		In addition, these books have influenced the language (in Neuromancer, William Gibson invented the term “cyberspace”) and style (the asian themes in a number of these works) of hacker culture.
		These three novels make up the Sprawl trilogy, a series of books that take place in roughly the same world.
		These three books basically cemented cyberpunk as a subgenre of science fiction, and introduced a new sense of information control that is key to understanding most hackers.
	www.jasongriffey.net /fiction.htm (178 words)

	Science Fiction
		After reading this book and the Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive) I was unable to read anything else for several days because anything else seemed drab and dull.
		This is one of the few "cyberpunk" books that actually deserves to be compared to William Gibson's Burning Chrome and Sprawl Trilogy.
		This trilogy tells the life of Afsan, the greatest scientist of his people, as he recreates the discoveries that took Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Darwin nearly half a millenium to accomplish in our history.
	www.tnrdlib.bc.ca /rr-indexes/sf-36.html (892 words)

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		While creating the Neuromancer sprawl triolgy, Gibson continued to develop as a writer and built upon his earlier ideas.
		In his new novel, published by Seal Books, Gibson gives his readers a novel that is more identifiable to its audience than his sprawl trilogy and makes a clean departure from the hard-core cyberpunk story.
		Virtual Light is a less romanticized vision of the future and its inhabitants.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /gopher/94-1/issue11/virtual.ans (390 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This one takes place mainly in the sprawl and dirty old London (which actually seems the same as early 21st century London !) - and again all the settings are very cool.
		The inevitable comparison with this story and the rest of the Sprawl trilogy must be made.
		Overall, I would say that this was the best of the trilogy on a technical level, if not exactly my favorite.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553281747?v=glance (2445 words)

	William Gibson aleph - Sprawl glossary
		In the Sprawl series future it is as popular as television is today, there is all kinds of different programs, people get addicted from simstim.
		Original term for Japan's family-corporations before WWII, which are now known as 'keiretsu'.
		In the Sprawl world the term describes multinational corporations.
	www.antonraubenweiss.com /gibson/sprawlgloss.html (976 words)

	Membranophonist's Ramblings: Gibson vs. Stephenson, contd.
		Based on the 179 pages I've read so far, he is clearly talented, but I think Gibson's vision is more interesting, probable (given when the Sprawl books were written), and believable.
		What I liked about Gibson's Sprawl trilogy was the gritty reality of the world it took place in.
		It is certainly true that Gibson's Sprawl trilogy is more somber than Stephenson's work.
	blog.wilsonet.com /archives/000259.html (970 words)

	William Gibson fans - tribe.net
		Features the story Johnny Mnemonic, which is the prequel to Neuromancer.
		Neuromancer- The first book of THE SPRAWL trilogy.
		Mona Lisa Overdrive- Last book of THE SPRAWL trilogy.
	williamgibson.tribe.net /thread/58c34a95-8546-4d6a-8764-5eb1a1c1e3ef?r=10307 (189 words)

	Synapse to Synapse 2.0: Hanson Ho In Many Nutshells
		Bridges were burnt in this one, both literally and metaphorically, as it doesn't do justice for a trilogy that began with such great promise.
		As a whole, it's better than Idoru, but it doesn't come close to the Sprawl trilogy or the fantastic Virtual Light.
		This is a nice start to the Bridge trilogy, even if I had read part two, Idoru, first.
	www.sfu.ca /~hwho/books2003.html (783 words)

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