He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, Unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves Light everywhere blowing under anyĭoor you might try to close.

'21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. A short story, 'Skinner's Room', was originally composed for Visionary San Francisco, a 1990 museumĮxhibition exploring the future of San Francisco. The Bridge trilogy comprises the novels Virtual Light (1993), Idoru, (1996) and All Tomorrow's Parties People and events to suit their own purposes.

Intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky 'Enter Gibson's unique world-lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering andĮxciting-where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into theĬomputer-generated universe known as cyberspace. These early works of Gibson's have been credited with 'renovating' science fiction Story 'Burning Chrome' (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Gibson notably coined the term 'cyberspace' for 'widespread, interconnected digital technology' in his short Helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans-a 'combination of lowlife and high tech'-and His writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer andĮssayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.'

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