Review: Spook Country by William Gibson
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Review: Spook Country by William Gibson
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Great Opening Lines From Sci-fi Novels
Idle Musings (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
IO9’s has done a nice little roundup of their favorite opening lines from science fiction novels. Two I like include: “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” — William Gibson, Neuromancer. “Physicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own.” — Dan Brown, Angels & [...]
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Neuromancer
growabrain (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
No Maps for These Territories Today's featured article on wikipedia is a lengthy biography of William Gibson. Quote: ...In 1967, he elected to move to Canada in order "to avoid the Vietnam war draft". At his draft hearing, he honestly...
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Great opening lines from sf
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
IO9's done a roundup of their favorite opening lines from science fiction. Some good reading here (and I'm flattered to have been included): "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." — William Gibson, Neuromancer. People always cite this as a great opening line, and it's easy to see why. It's such a vivid image. Link Thanks, Marilyn!)...
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"Mirrored Heavens": Taking cyberpunk to the stratosphere
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
David J. Williams' novel "Mirrored Heavens" takes the cyberpunk tradition of William Gibson and moves it forward into a nightmarish world of eco-catastrophes and nuclear weapon standoffs, in which "razors" and "mechs" negotiate interlocking webs of loyalty and betrayal.
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William Gibson Is Back
Giles Bowkett (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Old news to some, no doubt, but this is Neuromancer good.
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William Gibson - Cyberspace, and the Post-Internet Age
IT Conversations (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with William Gibson, author of the books "Neuromancer" and "Spook Country," about where we are headed in this post-internet age.
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My iPhone 3G plans fall flat
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Science fiction author William Gibson said The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed. The same could be said of Apple’s long awaited iPhone 3G, which launched last Friday. Although I had pre-ordered a phone at the start of the month, I came away empty handed. I turned up at O2’s Henry Street retail store at 8.00 am on the day of the launch. They normally open 9.30, but the O2 website...
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Masters at Work: An Interview With All Tomorrow's Parties Founder Barry Hogan
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
It started out in 1966 as a song about Andy Warhol's Factory clique. Then technocultural visionary William Gibson swiped it in 1999 for the title of the last installment of his Bridge trilogy. Shortly after that, it became the coolest...
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"...the slow swarm of spinning things..."
smays.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
We don't think of what we do here as Writing. It feels more like assemblage. Pasting together the little bits and pieces of the web and life. An idea best captured in one of my favorite passages (pg. 274) from William Gibson's Count Zero, originally published in 1986. It is the middle volume of the Sprawl trilogy, which includes Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. "She caught herself...
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BEING [COOL]HUNTED
Gibson Blog (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
"In Adidas’ latest 'Clean' theme, they’ve taken a new inspiration to select models which are devoid largely of any branding including the trademark adidas 3-Stripes. The BW Army Clean is seen here in both a high-top and low-top version. The Army model itself in inspired by the GSG9, a model seen on the feet of numerous special armed forces around the world and heralded as a great piece of footwear...
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DOWN AT THE LIDO, THEY WELCOME YOU WITH SAUSAGE AND BEER
Gibson Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Or so sang Steely Dan, at the very start of their careers, though not having one of Vancouver's psychogeographical landmarks in mind. I've driven past this place for decades, never without a slight twitch at how singularly wan and Deco-creepy it was. (I knew someone who used to buy *very* inexpensive canned goods there, twenty-some years ago. Eugh.) Today, finally and rather magnificently, The Lido...
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Something Spooky this way slides
evagation (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
I very much enjoyed William Gibson 's Pattern Recognition , so when I saw a new book from him I had to read it. Spook Country continues the theme of postmodern artistic futurism and the role of artists in interpreting a world that is so irascibly fungible. That said, it was still a pretty good read. ;) Much like a mini-episode of MTV's Whatever Happened To ... segments, Spook Country starts out following...
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AMEND
Gibson Blog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
I regret that my own weirdness made me a fascist about people who were not weird. --Lynda Barry, interviewed in Giant Robot #54
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THOMAS M. DISCH
Gibson Blog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
His review of The Difference Engine, in the New York Times, was perhaps the high point, for me, of the book's publication. He was a difficult critic to get anything past, but not in the least afraid of a difficult book. One learns to take reviews (particularly the positive ones) with a grain of salt, but the pleasure he took in our (as he put it) "immense, all-conquering parenthesis" delighted me deeply....
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