North by Northwest | Sarah Salway and William Gibson. Cities in Fact and Fiction: An Interview with William Gibson. The city looms large in the fiction of author William Gibson. In the September issue of Scientific American, Gibson's essay, "Life in the Meta-City," details how cities increase "the number and randomization of potential human and cultural contacts" and how they serve as "vast, multilayered engines of choice. " Cities that cease to provide choice—or which try to overcontrol their denizens—lose their spark and sometimes perish. In the interview that follows, Gibson shares his perceptions about existing cities and their links to his fiction. There is a well-known quote from you: "The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed. " It's a very scalable observation. Your fiction has depicted wide class gulfs in which "lowlifes" co-exist with the rich and feudallike corporations that concentrate mind-boggling amounts of wealth.
I depict those socioeconomic gulfs because they exist and because most of the imagined futures I grew up with tended not to depict them. An Interview with William Gibson « Canadian Notes & Queries. Maximus Clarke presents William Gibson, others in 3D. “Maximus Clarke’s digitally manipulated anaglyph portraits take 3D imaging beyond the bounds of cinematic novelty, and explore the paradox of stereography as a simultaneously hyper-realistic and highly artificial medium.” This Friday, August 19, Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg debuts Max’s 3-D portraits of William Gibson, Lindsey Case, Michael Doyle, Chris Ianuzzi, himself, and me.
He’ll be handing out old-fashioned red-and-blue glasses, which you’ll need to view the images in their full glory, but you can see a slideshow of the 3D photos, before deconstruction, at his site. Ted Hayes’ “Deconspectrum” also opens at the gallery starting that night. The opening reception begins at 7 p.m. and runs through midnight. The split show closes August 28. Previously, Max — aka the guy I’m married to — talked with William Gibson about his “speculative novels of last Wednesday.” Sci-fi prophet wraps high-tech trilogy. Sci-fi author William Gibson's latest book, "Zero History," will be released on Tuesday. "Zero History" is the final installment in a trilogy about billionaire Hubertus BigendSci-fi author William Gibson is credited with coining the term "cyberspace" The author wrote about Internet, reality TV and guerilla marketing before they became popularGibson: "I see Twitter as a virtual extension of 'the street.' You can run into anybody.
" (CNN) -- "When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. " That bit of wisdom from Hubertus Bigend, the brilliant Belgian billionaire at the center of sci-fi author, William Gibson's latest novel, "Zero History. " Bigend (pronounced Bayh-jhan) is the morally ambiguous mastermind behind a global marketing operation, the Google of trend forecasting. "Zero History" is the final chapter in a trilogy that Gibson began with "Pattern Recognition" in 2003 and continued in 2007's "Spook Country. " Mystical P.I. in 'City of the Dead' Battle of Babylondon. Recent image by fuldog on Photobucket. Escher-esque desktop wallpaper inspired by William Gibson’s “Zero History” | Stilnocturnal. William Gibson Signing 'Zero History' William Gibson - Official Website. A Discussion with William Gibson. William Gibson - Official Website. Neuromancer: Buy it: Hardcover | Paperback | Mass Market Read an Excerpt | 2012 Tour Dates | More Books Here is the novel that started it all, launching the cyberpunk generation, and the first novel to win the holy trinity of science fiction: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K.
Dick Award. With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace--and science fiction has never been the same. Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Excerpt Chapter 1 Case shrugged.
The bartender's smile widened. "Isn't you either, sister. William Gibson: Books, Biogs, Audiobooks, Discussions.