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	William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy
		Gibson's intro talks about the similarities/differences between artboys and geeks, how he thought himself an artboy but people thought he was a geek, and how "Academy Leader" was an attempt to declare himself an artboy once and for all.
		Gibson himself says Hollywood forces changed the movie from his and Longo's vision, and that the Japanese cut of the movie (in English with Japanese subtitles) is closer to their intent.
		Gibson's flat twang voice work can't express the variety of all the characters, but his presentation of the narrative drive of the tale is excellent.
	www.skierpage.com /gibson/biblio.htm (4490 words)

	William Gibson (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Gibson is generally credited with the invention of the Science Fiction genre known as cyberpunk, as well as coining the term cyberspace.
		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.
		Gibson also made a cameo appearance in the miniseries Wild Palms, which was heavily influenced by the work of Gibson and other cyberpunk writers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gibson_(novelist) (854 words)

	William Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Gibson, the playwright, author of The Miracle Worker.
		William Gibson, an American natural history writer and illustrator.
		William Gibson (born 1932?), U.S. administrator and dentist; chairman of NAACP since 1985
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gibson (133 words)

	William Gibson
		Gibson has been writing short stories since the 70's, and he had a few vague ideas as early as 1976, the year he wrote his first published story 'Fragments Of A Hologram Rose', which mixes end-of-an-affair melancholy with an early take on virtual reality.
		Gibson is the coiner of the word cyberspace.
		Gibson has also one shorter story, Agrippa, which he published in 1992 after his father's death.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/williamgibson.html (324 words)

	William Gibson
		William Gibson is called "the father of Cyberpunk" by some, and is trashed as a poser by others.
		So whether you are of the opinon that Gibson is a genius or a poser, there is no denying that he changed the direction of Science Fiction in the last decade.
		And not only is Gibson a trendsetter in fiction, he has also spoken out on many technological issues that face society today, including the use of the Internet for educational purposes.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/gibson.htm (392 words)

	Salon Books \| "All Tomorrow's Parties" by William Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Gibson is so secure in his status as a prophet of the digital age that it's easy to forget he's been publishing novels for just 15 years -- about as long as the Apple Macintosh has been around.
		But the computer revolution is all the history Gibson needs for his books; he combines it with old-fashioned notions of character and suspense and skews his novels hyperkinetically forward in time.
		William Gibson: The Salon Interview Cyberspace's father spends some quality time with his progeny.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/1999/10/29/gibson (708 words)

	William Gibson's new novel asks, is the truth stranger than science fiction today? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gibson went home to Vancouver, B.C., and soon implanted the notion of computer viruses into a short story that he was writing, later a novel.
		Gibson soon published his first novel, "Neuromancer," a 1984 volume that is widely considered a seminal, classic work of sci-fi.
		Gibson later went to private school in Arizona, then immersed himself in the 1960s counterculture and fled to Canada to evade the Vietnam War draft, although his name was never called.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/107368_gibson06.shtml (1118 words)

	William Gibson - The Source Code and Biography
		The source code is taken from the William Gibson website and is a biography "since 1948"....
		William Ford Gibson was born March 17, 1948 in Conway, South Carolina but left the United States for Canada when he was nineteen.
		Gibson is credited with having coined the term 'Cyberspace', and with having envisioned both the internet and virtual reality before most people had even heard of them.
	www.voidspace.org.uk /cyberpunk/gibson_bio.shtml (1341 words)

	William Gibson Book Reviews
		Among Gibson's many contributions to postmodern culture is the term "cyberspace." And it seems as if the Internet has evolved based partly on the metaphorical infrastructure provided by his early stories and novels.
		Gibson is one of the best prose stylists working; his futures are lean and utterly believable works of extrapolation.
		Gibson turns the science fiction genre to putty and twists it into something frighteningly new and palpable, beaming a spotlight on society's uneasy symbiosis with technology.
	www.mactonnies.com /gibson.html (941 words)

	ClassZone.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gibson did experience success with his writing, however, and was published for the first time in a school newspaper after winning a contest.
		Gibson attended the City College of New York for four semesters but, on the bad advice of a teacher, enrolled in a science program that both bored and baffled him.
		Gibson was actively involved in planning the Broadway productions of these two plays in the late 1950s but became upset over script changes made by the producer and director.
	www.classzone.com /novelguides/authors/gibson.cfm (507 words)

	[ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ] : Inventor of cyberspace steps back to the present
		I am sitting talking to the writer William Gibson - the epitome of gritty tech street cred; a kind of cyber-literary Lou Reed in his hard-bitten coolness - and the conversation has turned to his belief that emerging technologies are what shape future history, not politics, not wars, not philosophies.
		Mr Gibson shows a flicker of a smile and probably thinks the comment was deliberate, a small gesture of homage.
		Mr Gibson's writings run deep, forming cyberculture's bedrock, influencing filmmakers, novelists, technologists, academics, and thousands of ordinary people who stumble into one of his novels and find they start thinking about technology, about computers and their uses, about the present and the future, in new ways.
	radio.weblogs.com /0103966/stories/2003/04/25/inventorOfCyberspaceStepsBackToThePresent.html (1519 words)

	SALON: William Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		has been catching up with William Gibson's science fiction for a long time now -- as "cyberspace," the term he invented in his 1982 novel "Neuromancer," entered everyday parlance, and cyberpunk passed with alarming speed from literary movement to buzzword to fleeting Hollywood fashion.
		Gibson himself -- despite his influence and following, and despite his recent brushes with Hollywood during the unhappy saga of the movie "Johnny Mnemonic" -- has not let the celebrity mill grind him down.
		Tall, stooped and a courtly 48 years old, he lives with his family in Vancouver, speaks with the ghost of a Southern accent -- and continues to hone a rarefied sense of irony about the subtle interplay between the present and the future, the fictional and the actual.
	www.salon.com /weekly/gibson961014.html (299 words)

	IT Conversations: Tech Nation - William Gibson, author
		Book Desription: The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica.
		Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures.
		The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail389.html (526 words)

	William Gibson Pattern Recognition, Neuromancer - read reviews
		Gibson is an author known for his "atmospherics." This time around, he does not disappoint.
		Gibson could make a good interior designer, always commenting on the strange color and construction of walls and the peculiar nature of window treatments.
		William Gibson was born in 1948 in Conway, South Carolina and spent his childhood in a small town in Southwestern, Virginia.
	mostlyfiction.com /scifi/gibson.htm (1305 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Tomorrow's man
		Gibson was the progenitor of what became known as "cyberpunk"- a mode of dystopian and technologically visionary science fiction whose brightest flowering was his own first novel, Neuromancer.
		Gibson's hopes for his first novel had ex-tended to "fantasies of minor but twitchily hip recognition in England or France" - he is something of an Anglophile, acknowledging that his favourite novelists of the past six years have been Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair.
		Gibson recalls telling her six months ago that he was going to start writing a weblog on his website: "She's 20, and she reacted as though I had announced that I was taking up snowboarding," he laughs.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,948208,00.html (3504 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Gibson's own Neuromancer, in many ways an augur of the new SF, even features a hero whose name (Case) is a pun prescient of our current focus (he is a symptomatic case not a cartoon culture hero, he cases the grammar of cyberspace, et cetera).
		She takes the job—and from this point, in Gibson's extremely deft hands, the plot more or less takes care of the reader, everything tying together, in the end, with an unrelenting porcelain clarity.
		Gibson does it superbly, of course—and it could readily be argued that a novel called Pattern Recognition whose subject is pattern recognition might do worse than end with the quilt of story entirely quilted, with the pattern of the story entirely recognized—but still.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue305/excess.html (1360 words)

	William GIBSON (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gibson returned he moved their sawed log house which they had built on their ranch during the summer (sawing logs with a whip saw) to Old Ashley Town where they lived for a year, then returned to their ranch.
		William "Billy" Gibson first saw the virgin Ashley Valley in 1869 from a hill that stretched along the north rim of the valley northeast of Ashley town.
		Gibson's grandsons, by then prominent men in the community, were forced to exhume the remains of their grandfather and seven other relatives who lay buried in the tiny Gibson graveyard and re-inter them in the Vernal Cemetery."1
	homepage.mac.com /venitar/Genealogy/WebCards/PS02/PS02_188.HTM (1016 words)

	Mindjack - Books - Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
		He just sets his fingers on a keyboard or opens his mouth and slowly lays out these fantastic koans that become so popular that their origin is forgotten.
		The adventure is just what you'd ask for in a great, big new William Gibson novel, the first in three years, and a third longer than his last book.
		Gibson is no technologist, he's an accomplished and insightful social critic and a fantastic writer, and he treats these items from the real world as metaphor -- just as he treated cyberspace as a metaphor for the world that the bodies of cabinet gamers yearned to enter.
	www.mindjack.com /books/gibsonpr.html (1227 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Beginning with his 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer, Gibson's "Sprawl" series introduced a generation of readers to the concept of "cyberpunk." The world he described with his incandescent prose was bleak, dangerous and saturated with dehumanizing technology.
		Gibson: Yeah, well I think that what happens is that in the course of writing on a very regular basis, the membrane between conscious and unconscious gets sandpapered down paper-thin, so there can be, like, ruptures.
		Gibson: No, it's just that I had always wanted to use that title as the title of a science fiction novel, and I thought this was a good time to do it.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue146/interview.html (2377 words)

	Neuromancer by William Gibson
		William Gibson's debut novel Neuromancer gained a cult-status very soon after its publishing by being one of the first novels in a new science-fiction genre called Cyberpunk.
		Although Gibson used the word "cyberspace" first time in his story "Burning Chrome" already in 1982, in Neuromancer he presented the whole idea of a global information network called the Matrix.
		In fact, Gibson focuses almost entirely on the ugly aspects of technology which is in contrast to his "matrix".
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/neuromancer.html (639 words)

	William Gibson - The Index Page.
		Gibson, William; March 17, 1948, Conway, S.C., U.S.; American writer of science fiction who was the leader of the genre's 'cyberpunk' movement.
		Gibson's creation of 'cyberspace,' a computer-simulated reality that shows the nature of information, foreshadowed virtual reality technology and is considered the author's major contribution to the genre.
		Two short biographies of William Gibson, one is the 'source code' taken from his website explaining what shapes his writing and the other is the biography from the William Gibson Aleph site.
	www.voidspace.org.uk /cyberpunk/gibson_index.shtml (619 words)

	Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson in "Cyberspace"
		Gibson's neo-realistic cybervision creates a possible reality that scientists can model as plausible and which (according to Timothy Leary) technophiles can use to reinforce their identities.
		While Gibson's world of the Sprawl is still a fiction, scientists and phrackers alike adopt the words and concepts of his novel as a vocabulary with which they can talk about, and tools with which they can build the future.
		Fortunately, the visions (tools) Gibson has provided may make the transition a bit quicker; the author said himself, "I'm always a little amazed when I run into people who feel that technology is something that's outside of the individual, that one can either accept or reject.
	www.ibiblio.org /cmc/mag/1995/sep/doherty.html (1982 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Genres: Cyberpunk: Authors: Gibson, William
		William Gibson - Bohemian Ink's overview of the cyberpunk phenomenon and William Gibson's fiction.
		William Gibson - Salon magazine's synopsis of the author's sci-fi novel, which deals with the possibilities for technological romances.
		William Gibson: a Reader's Guide - The complete text of the first full-length study of William Gibson's novels and short stories.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Genres/Cyberpunk/Authors/Gibson,_William (411 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| William Gibson \| Time Machine Cuba
		I found Henry Miller, then, and William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and others, voices of another kind, and the science fiction I continued to read was that which somehow was resonant with those other voices, and where those voices seemed to be leading me.
		And it may also have begun to dawn on me, around that same time, that history, though initially discovered in whatever soggy trunk or in whatever caliber, is a species of speculative fiction itself, prone to changing interpretation and further discoveries.
		Charles Whiteside, whose poster of Gibson among the Morlocks is photographed above, is a Seattle artist whose work can be seen in the galleries and on the streets.
	www.infinitematrix.net /faq/essays/gibson.html (2319 words)

	Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)
		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.
		Gibson's prose was too dense and tangled for casual readers, so it is not surprising that he gained more of a following among academics than among the sort of people it depicted.
		In the operation called "Screaming Fist" (a typical karate film title, though Gibson probably got it from the title of a 1977 song by the Vancouver punk band The Viletones) a team had been hired to destroy a Russian computer network ("nexus") in Kirensk with a virus, but Armitage failed and was caught.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html (6101 words)

	Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
		In William Gibson's work, the vision is communicated in beautifully constructed sentences (in the documentary interview with William Gibson, No Maps for These Territories, Gibson recounts spending weeks writing and rewriting one sentence early in his writing career).
		What amazes me is that Gibson talks in a style that is similar to the way that he writes (in contrast, this is not true of another great science fiction stylist, Ray Bradbury).
		Slash Dot commented that "of course this is Gibson's best novel in years", since we've had to wait three years for this book to appear.
	www.bearcave.com /bookrev/pattern_recognition.html (1653 words)

	BRmovie.com: William Gibson interview - 1995
		Gibson saw a future where nation states rotted beneath a new triumph of corporate feudalism, where the matrix of the data banks and computer networks was the sharp reality.
		Gibson provided an aesthetic of nerdish machismo, the computer-jock as hero, that suddenly offered a literature for a technology that was still in the process of being invented.
		Gibson revisits Tokyo after the Bubble and gives his own special view of where the Japanese are now.
	www.brmovie.com /Articles/Guardian_WG_1995.htm (1260 words)

	UBC Archives - William Gibson - Description (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Gibson is generally recognized as the most important science fiction writer to emerge in the 1980s.
		Gibson was born in 1948 in Conway, South Carolina.
		Gibson studied English at the University of British Columbia.
	www.library.ubc.ca /archives/u_arch/wgibs.html (194 words)

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