William Ford Gibson (Conway, South Carolina, March 17, 1948) is an American science fiction author and ' father ' of the 'cyberpunk'. In 1984 he won with Neuromancerthe Nebula Award and the Philip k. Dick Award, the Hugo Awardthe following year. He lives and works in Canada.
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Neuromancer[Edit][]
Neuromancer (1984) is set in the just-not-near future. Plastic surgery is ubiquitous: nearly all people have implants and artificial limbs and organs, and use designer-drugs as if they were sweets. The world is dominated by multinationals, there is widespread corruption, pollution, and decay. Using ' consoles ', an advanced form of user interface, breaks Case, a hacker, in in Web spaces (cyberspace) companies to steal information there. An electronic defense system, a kind of firewall, in the book, however, called for the hackers really ICE can mean death. Case is recruited by a certain Armitage. By means of surgery are small gifzakjes in his body. Just as he manages the networks of the company Tessier-Ashpool SA to hack, will be neutralized the poison. Case and a number of accomplices, including Molly, must accept this blackmail the challenge. The book was written at a time when some of the words we use to describe the concepts used would now did not exist, and so Gibson mentions some things differently from the name by which we know them now. Neuromancer was followed by Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, and forms a trilogy known as theSprawl-series.
Style[Edit][]
The books of Gibson are rich what inventiveness, language and style, and seem even the most on Japanese anime/manga. The Exchange quickly scenes, and what really happens and what not, from whose viewpoint and in which room (the real or cyberspace) is not always clear, making the danger of disorientation to the reader always lying in wait. They ask therefore actually to proofreading, which also will not soon get bored. There is much violence and action in for. Gibson chooses resolutely for so-called used future: the future looks gray, dirty, dilapidated and dangerous.
Gibson calls a coherent futuristic universe, filled with details of. Typical is that he is not standing still at those details to describe them and/or explain; the reader must fill in a lot of guessing and. Often run two or more parallel lines tell . Furthermore, certain characters (Case, for example) other characters hacking: Case then increases the sensory perceptions of, for example, Molly about (he sees, feels, smells etc. what Molly see, feel, smell etc.). This often causes confusion as regards the tell perspective. All these stylistic ground-breaking elements make the reading experience extra intensive.
Reception and cult status[Edit][]
Gibson acquired the status of cult author immediately after his debut, yet he hears at home earlier in the box of the literature than the so-called reading (books are innovative and too difficult). Gibson first used the term cyberspace and matrix (referring to something that looks like what we now call the internet), and described on the visionary mode (extreme) possibilities of the internet, long before the internet became widely known. His work inspired among other things the makers of the film The Matrix (Neo and Trinity from the movie The Matrix are based on Case and Molly from Neuromancer), a short story by Gibson was the basis of the film Johnny Mnemonic, and Gibson himself wrote the scenario of a X-Filesepisode (about online gaming).
Bibliography[Edit][]
- Neuromancer (1984) (English translation Zenumagiër (1989))
- Count Zero (1986) (Dutch translation Biochips (1990))
- Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) (Dutch translation Mona Lisa overdrive (1990))
- Burning Chrome (1986) (Dutch translation Technopunk SF (1991))
- The Difference Engine -with Bruce Sterling -(1991) (English translation the steam Butterfly (1992))
- Virtual Light (1993) (English translation Virtual light (1994))
- Idoru (1996) (Dutch translation Idoru (1997))
- All tomorrow's Parties (1999) (English translation The stalker syndrome (2000))
- Pattern Recognition (2003) (English translation picture by picture (2003))
- Ghost Country (2007)
- Zero History (2010)