The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Critical and Interpretive Essays
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
By William Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Congressman and Senate candidate Kendrick Meek reportedly gathered $20,750 of campaign contributions from medical-equipment firms this year while pushing a bill to end a new competitive bidding program for buying medical supplies through...
The Daily What (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Late Links: 19th century law still on the books orders Parisian women to go pantsless . I don’t remember seeing this in my complementary Sky Mall catalog. Cleavage Wednesday: Leighton Meester , Leona Lewis , Beth Ditto , and Jodie Sweetin . Lingerie Wednesday: Bar Refaeli . BREAKING: Carmen Electra is an attention whore . Keeley Hazell would rather go naked than wear fur . We would rather she...
the s.n.a.f.u. principle (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Love this. (via William Gibson) Video – Descente de cote en BuggyRollin
Dorai's LearnLog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From Gary Hemmel's Outrunning Future It’s hard to out-run the future if you don’t see it coming. Learn from the fringe. What’s true for music, fashion and the arts is true for business as well: the future starts on the fringe (not in the mainstream). As William Gibson once said, “The future has already happened, it’s just [...]
Alterdestiny (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
James William Gibson wants us to reconnect with the wild. A fairly constant theme within environmental thought, Gibson treads familiar ground in his 2009 book A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature , even if that ground continues to resonate with many Americans. Gibson believes we have lost touch with the wild around us and that this is a terrible thing. Happily for Gibson, many...
FRESH MEAT (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly - Neuromancer - io9
io9 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
It's been quite some time since we've heard any news about the Neuromancer, but director Joseph Kahn is apparently still working on it. He tweeted about it over the weekend — and William Gibson... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Internet entrepreneur and author of the bestselling Little Brother discusses his latest novel Makers and what distinguishes his work from the cyberpunk of William Gibson.
For The Birds (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by Michael Moorcock Some houses hold secret chambers, accessible only via hidden corridors and locked doors. We assume such a place is fantastic simply on account of its concealment, but both the banal and the occult can be obscured from the public eye. Assume, for instance, that a hidden chamber contains a bookshelf whose duplicate rests in the building’s main concourse. Does concealment alter...
Another Damned Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Author William Gibson’s reaction in real time to this news.
io9 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Neuromancer movie may never get off the ground, but a performance/video installation version is coming to New York next week. When Sasha Grey accepted her Fleshbot award via video last night, she... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL... Earlier in the year I was concentrating on audiobooks during the daily commute and the regular trips out to visit the parental units. Lately I've been downloading podcasts and listening to them. Here's a round-up of what has been making the rotation through the iPod. The Agony Column: The Mother and Father of All Literary Podcasts. A bit hard to navigate the archives...
kottke (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Whenever I link to something at Amazon on kottke.org, there's an affiliate code associated with the link. When I log into my account, I can access a listing of what people bought 1 . The interesting bit is that everything someone buys after clicking through to Amazon counts and is listed, even items I didn't link to directly. These purchased-but-unlinked-to items form a sort of store created by kottke.org...
smays.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I don’t have a post to go with the quote above, but it’s so good I had to write down. I found it on William Gibson’s Twitter feed and he retweeted John Perry Barlow, who overheard it at at dinner party.
The Gazetteer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
SteamPunkIsSo PastTenseVille Following up on Brenton's most excellent description of where, and how, to buy used books on Lotusland's main Main St , I figured now would be a good time to mention that William Gibson is...... Twitter. OK? _____ And in parallel universe news, yesterday Mr. Walters picked up Pattern Recognition for a few bucks at Pulp Fiction on Main just below Broadway....Me, I got it...
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