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Korinna is known for its usage in television. It is perhaps best known as the display font for clues on the 1984 version of Jeopardy!. [1] It was also used on ABC's Good Morning America from 1986 to 1988, as the chapter placard typeface for the television series Frasier, Hank Parker's Outdoor Magazine, TNN's New Country, and Mork and Mindy, The Joy of Painting public television series from ...
The works of William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in "Burning Chrome" (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel Neuromancer.
The trilogy was commercially and critically successful. Steven Poole, writing in The Guardian, described "Neuromancer and the two novels which followed, Count Zero (1986) and the gorgeously titled Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)" as making up "a fertile holy trinity, a sort of Chrome Koran (the name of one of Gibson's future rock bands) of ideas inviting endless reworkings".
Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1987 [1] and released in 1988 by Linotype GmbH.. The word avenir is French for ' future '.As the name suggests, the family takes inspiration from the geometric style of sans-serif typeface developed in the 1920s that took the circle as a basis, such as Erbar and Futura.
The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson [2] set in near- and post-apocalyptic versions of the future. [3] The story focuses on a young rural-town American woman who lives in the near future, and on a London publicist who lives 70 years thereafter. Gibson's 2020 book Agency is set in the same
Gibson's prose has been analyzed by a number of scholars, including a dedicated 2011 book, William Gibson: A Literary Companion. [122] Hailed by Steven Poole of The Guardian in 1999 as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades" in terms of influence, [55] Gibson first achieved critical recognition with his debut novel ...
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. [1] It presents a near future whose technologies include a network of supercomputers that created a "matrix" in "cyberspace", an accessible, virtual, three-dimensionally active "inner space", which, for Gibson—writing these decades earlier—was seen as being dominated by violent ...
Virtual Light is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, the first book in his Bridge trilogy. Virtual Light is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future.