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Gibson (left) influenced cyberpunk [127] and postcyberpunk writers such as Cory Doctorow (right), [130] whom he also consulted for technical advice while writing Spook Country. [131] Gibson's early novels were, according to The Observer, "seized upon by the emerging slacker and hacker generation as a kind of road map". [8]
Neuromancer has many literary progenitors. Detective fiction, like the work of Raymond Chandler, is frequently cited as an influence on Neuromancer. For example, critics note similarities between Gibson's Case and Chandler's Philip Marlowe: Case is described as a "cowboy" and a "detective" and is involved in a heist; [12] Molly, the novel's primary female character, has connections to the ...
"The Gernsback Continuum" is a 1981 science fiction short story by American-Canadian author William Gibson, originally published in the anthology Universe 11 edited by Terry Carr. It was later reprinted in Gibson's collection Burning Chrome, and in Mirrorshades, edited by Bruce Sterling.
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Burning Chrome (1986) is a collection of short stories written by William Gibson. [1] [2] Three of the stories take place in Gibson's Sprawl, a shared setting for most of his early cyberpunk work. Many of the ideas and themes explored in the short stories were later revisited in Gibson's popular Sprawl trilogy. [3]
Idoru is the second book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Idoru is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. One of the main characters, Colin Laney, has a talent for identifying nodal points, analogous to Gibson's own: Laney's node-spotter function is some sort of metaphor for whatever it is that I actually do.
Mona Lisa Overdrive is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, published in 1988.It is the final novel of the cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy, following Neuromancer and Count Zero, taking place eight years after the events of the latter.
It takes place in the world of Gibson's cyberpunk novels, predating them by some years, and introduces the character Molly Millions, who plays a prominent role in the Sprawl trilogy of novels. The short story served as the basis for the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic , whose plot uses the same basic premise but otherwise differs considerably.