Really satisfied with this book - a very thorough conclusion to the trilogy.Again it was a fast paced and enjoyable story telling. It neatly tied off the story of key players of the first books, including a sympathetic conclusion for Cayce Pollard.However Gibson's weak points as a writer were exp...
Distrust That Particular Flavour is a collection of non-fiction pieces by William Gibson, published between the late 1980s and the modern day. I read them bit by bit while reading other books, because while Gibson’s a good writer, his style and choice of topics can easily be repetitive.There are ...
In the 21st Century, Case, the best interface cowboy ever to run in the world-wide computer net, and Molly, the female mercenary with computer eyes and switchblade fingers, are recruited for a secret mission that will bring them into conflict with the world's most powerful corporate clan; a confl...
I have read “Neuromancer” and “Count Zero” and I consider myself a fan of William Gibson’s. I decided it was time to dig into the third and final book of his cyberpunk “Sprawl trilogy”.SUMMARYLike the previous two books, a number of separate stories, each with their own viewpoint character, conve...
William Gibson can write. I keep exploring this in different ways and different words as I read through Gibson’s oeuvre, but in the end it comes down to two appropriately alliterative words: William Gibson has voice and vision. He has a way with language that not every writer, even really good on...
“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan“We have no future because our present is too volatile... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.” – Herbertus Bigend, Pattern Recognition---Pattern Recognition is the story of an eccentric tren...
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.When he was a child in an orphanage in Florida, Colin Laney participated in a research study in which he was given a drug that allows him to visualize and extract meaningful information from endless streams of internet data. Laney now has the ability to see...
I finished reading William Gibson's newest novel, Spook Country, a few days ago and have been trying to figure out how I feel about it. It is one of the few books I have eagerly scooped up in hardcover, I loved his Pattern Recognition so much. The promise of another book set in what can only be c...
Adapted from ISawLightningFall.comIf the novel is a sojourn in a foreign land, short stories are trips to the municipal park. Much of their provinciality is a function of length. Long-form fiction has the space to luxuriate in detail, dwelling on tertiary characters, describing each bit of their ...
Scroll down for the English version.Il padre del cyberpunk non mi ha convinto Questo romanzo mi ha lasciato perplessa sin dalle sue prime righe. Ammetto di aver riletto la prima pagina un paio di volte, poiché non mi era chiaro di chi stesse parlando, dove si trovasse e soprattutto cosa stesse fa...
Did you read Neuromancer and say, "This was good, but it could have used more steampunk?" That's kind of how one might describe The Difference Engine: Neuromancer meets steampunk. It's not a comprehensive, completely accurate description, but if that's sufficient for you, you can stop reading n...
ANNIE’S voice is audible, very patient, and worn; it has been saying this for a long time. ANNIE: Water, Helen. This is water. W, a, t, e, r. It has a name. (A silence. Then:) Egg, e, g, g. It has a name, the name stands for the thing. Oh, it’s so simple, simple as birth, to explain. (The lights ...
Monkey BoxingBetween stations there was a gray shudder beyond the windows of the silent train. Not as of surfaces rushing past, but as if particulate matter were being vibrated there at some crucial rate, just prior to the emergence of a new order of being.Chia and Masahiko had found two seats, b...
TIMESICK I’ve got to sleep,” she said to Burton, in the kitchen, after Corbell had gone with the big man who’d brought in a golf umbrella to walk him back to his car. She was having trouble keeping her eyes open. “You think Netherton can handle Corbell?” “Lowbeer and the others can tell him what...
She recited the year and place of his birth, his BAMA Single Identification Number, and a string of names he gradually recognized as aliases from his past. “You been here awhile?” He saw the contents of his bag spread out across the bed, unwashed clothing sorted by type. T...