William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Pattern Recognition.
Biography
Science fiction owes an enormous debt to William Gibson, the cyberpunk pioneer who revolutionized the genre with his startling stories of tough, alienated loners adrift in a world of sinister high technology.
Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, and spent much of his youth in Virginia with his widowed mother. He grew up shy and bookish, discovering science fiction and the literature of the beats at a precociously early age. When he was 15, he was sent away to private school in Arizona, but he left without graduating when his mother died suddenly. He fled to Canada to avoid the draft and immersed himself in '60s counterculture. He married, moved to British Columbia, and enrolled in college, graduating in 1977 with a degree in English. Around this time he began to write in earnest, combining his lifelong love of science fiction and his newfound passion for the punk music evolving in New York and London.
In the early 1980s, Gibson met writer and punk musician John Shirley and sci-fi authors Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling. All three were blown away by the power and originality of Gibson's stories, and together the four men went on to forge a radical new literary movement called cyberpunk. In 1984, Gibson's groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, was published. Daring and revolutionary, it envisioned such techno-marvels as AI, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and multinational capitalism years before they became realities. Although it was not an immediate sensation, Neuromancer struck a chord with hardcore sci-fi fans who turned it into a word-of-mouth hit. Then it won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards (the Triple Crown of Science Fiction), catapulting Gibson into superstardom overnight.
Even if he had never written another word, Gibson's impact would be clearly seen in the works of such cutting-edge contemporary authors as Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Paul DiFilippo. But, as it is, Neuromancer was just the beginning -- the first book in an inspired trilogy that has come to be considered a benchmark in the history of the genre; and since then, Gibson has gone on to create even more visionary science fiction, including The Difference Engine, a steampunk classic co-authored with Bruce Sterling, and such imaginative post-9/11 cyber thrillers as Pattern Recognition and Spook Country .
"Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene. It permeated into our consciousness, our culture, our science, and our technology. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer showed us what we were capable of creating and what we were capable of destroying - and illuminated the dark corners of the path we were headed down." Today, we have this science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing our way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become our own. And yet, William Gibson's vision still manages to inspire the minds that will take us ever further into the future.
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评分http://blog.pixnet.net/post/AITNOG/175494 (載於《科科電子報》No. 43;2000年12月05日) William Ford Gibson,「電馭叛客」(Cyberpunk)科幻文學的創派宗師與代表人物。1948年03月17 日於美國南卡羅萊納州出生,19歲隨母移民加拿大多倫多市,於1972年偕妻子遷居溫哥華...
评分如果是5年前看这本书,可能会觉得不知所云。书中所写的那些事情完全超乎常人的想象范围。随着互联网的兴起,虚拟空间与每个人的真实生活渐渐分不开了。此时再看此书,不禁“呵”地一声!只能佩服作者非凡的幻想力。以《骇客帝国》为代表的一大批幻想数字世界的影片,很明显...
看得好吃力,一浪接一浪的,简直酷炫到没朋友
评分Obviously brilliant writing but jargon and slang make it somewhat hard to read.
评分A favorite. A new kind of romance. ("He never saw Molly again.")
评分想象力!绝望的冲刺、与痛感并至的柳暗花明、戛然而止的冒险、枪响、重现眼前的原点和徐徐落下的悠远回声。印象最深刻作者一笔让“不存在的Ratz”说出,these "Playgrounds hung in space, castles hermetically sealed, the rarest rots of old Europa, dead men sealed in little boxes magic out of China...You needed this world built for you, this beach, this place. To die."在逼近结尾的地方等着一个拿锤子的人将幻想的镜片打碎,说着嘲讽的安慰的话语,宣布这荒唐、刺激、了不起的一切。精彩至极
评分formative high school personal read
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