Sprawl Series Complete 4 Books Collection Set by William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive & Burning Chrome)

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Neuromancer is considered "the archetypal cyberpunk work". [16] Outside science fiction, it gained unprecedented critical and popular attention [1] as an "evocation of life in the late 1980s", [17] although The Observer noted that "it took the New York Times 10 years" to mention the novel. [18] By 2007 it had sold more than 6.5million copies worldwide. [12] a b van Bakel, Rogier (June 1995). "Remembering Johnny". Wired. Vol.3, no.6. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008 . Retrieved January 10, 2008. Yorkville: Hippie haven (14 min Windows Media Video; "This is Bill" appears first after 0:45). September 4, 1967. Rochdale College: Organized anarchy (16 min radio recording Windows Media Audio; interviews start after 4:11). Yorkville, Toronto: CBC.ca . Retrieved February 1, 2008. Mark Neale (director), William Gibson (subject). (2000). No Maps for These Territories. [Documentary]. Docurama.

Gibson read an abridged version of his novel Neuromancer on four audio cassettes for Time Warner Audio Books (1994), which are now unavailable. [31] An unabridged version of this book was read by Arthur Addison and made available from Books on Tape (1997). In 2011, Penguin Audiobooks produced a new unabridged recording of the book, read by Robertson Dean. Neuromancer graphic novel". Antonraubenweiss.com . http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gallery/neuromancer-graphicnovel/gn00.html . Retrieved 2009-03-16. Lawrence Person in his "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" (1998) identified Neuromancer as "the archetypal cyberpunk work". [39] Neuromancer. Wintermute's sibling AI, physically located in Rio de Janeiro. Neuromancer's most notable feature in the story is its ability to copy minds and run them as RAM (not ROM like the Flatline construct), allowing the stored personalities to grow and develop. Unlike Wintermute, Neuromancer has no desire to merge with its sibling AI—Neuromancer already has its own stable personality, and believes such a fusion will destroy that identity. Gibson defines Neuromancer as a portmanteau of the words Neuro, Romancer and Necromancer, "Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead." [8] For Lance Olsen "Gibson becomes the new romancer behind Neuromancer, revitalizing the science fiction novel, the quest story, the myth of the hero, the mystery, the hard-boiled detective novel, the epic, the thriller, and the tales of the cowboy and romantic artist, among others. He represents old stories in a revealing revamped intertexual [sic] pastiche." [9]Dave Langford reviewed Neuromancer for White Dwarf #59, and stated that "I spent the whole time on the edge of my seat and got a cramp as a result. In a way Gibson's pace is too frenetic, so unremitting that the reader never gets a rest and can't see the plot for the dazzle. Otherwise: nice one." [10] Neuromancer is the most remarkable cyberpunk science fiction novel ever written. With its fantastic description and plot, the book had made a name in writing history and paved a path for the later novels to come. For you to get a glimpse of the future world, Neuromancer is the book that you need to study before anyone that would give you the experience of a lifetime. You can get ebook pdf free from here. a b c d e f Adams, Tim; Emily Stokes; James Flint (August 12, 2007). "Space to think". The Observer. London. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007 . Retrieved October 26, 2007. The couple married and settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1972, with Gibson looking after their first child while they lived off his wife's teaching salary. During the 1970s, Gibson made a substantial part of his living from scouring Salvation Army thrift stores for underpriced artifacts he would then up-market to specialist dealers. [25] Realizing that it was easier to sustain high college grades, and thus qualify for generous student financial aid, than to work, [16] he enrolled at the University of British Columbia (UBC), earning "a desultory bachelor's degree in English" [7] in 1977. [27] Through studying English literature, he was exposed to a wider range of fiction than he would have read otherwise; something he credits with giving him ideas inaccessible from within the culture of science fiction, including an awareness of postmodernity. [28] It was at UBC that he attended his first course on science fiction, taught by Susan Wood, at the end of which he was encouraged to write his first short story, " Fragments of a Hologram Rose". [9] Early writing and the evolution of cyberpunk [ edit ]

Person, Lawrence (Winter–Spring 1998). "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto". Nova Express. 4 (4). Archived from the original on April 26, 2009 . Retrieved November 6, 2007.Lawrence Person in his "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" (1998) identified Neuromancer as "the archetypal cyberpunk work", [15] and in 2005, Time included it in their list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, opining that "[t]here is no way to overstate how radical [ Neuromancer] was when it first appeared." [13] Literary critic Larry McCaffery described the concept of the matrix in Neuromancer as a place where "data dance with human consciousness... human memory is literalized and mechanized... multi-national information systems mutate and breed into startling new structures whose beauty and complexity are unimaginable, mystical, and above all nonhuman." [4] Gibson later commented on himself as an author circa Neuromancer that "I'd buy him a drink, but I don't know if I'd loan him any money," and referred to the novel as "an adolescent's book". [22] The success of Neuromancer was to effect the 35-year-old Gibson's emergence from obscurity. [23] Adaptations [ ] Cast". Mon Amour Mon Parapluie. Archived from the original on June 21, 2004 . Retrieved October 26, 2007. Bennie, Angela (September 7, 2007). "A reality stranger than fiction". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on September 11, 2007 . Retrieved January 21, 2008. a b c d e f g h McCaffery, Larry (1991). Storming the Reality Studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1168-3. OCLC 23384573.

Gibson, William; Bruce Sterling (1986). "Introduction". Burning Chrome. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-053982-5. OCLC 51342671. Maelcum. An inhabitant of Zion, a space settlement built by a colony of Rastafari adherents, and pilot of the tug Marcus Garvey. He aids Case in penetrating Straylight at the end of the novel. Zakon, Robert H (November 1, 2006). "Hobbes' Internet Timeline v8.2". Zakon Group LLC. Archived from the original on May 5, 2009 . Retrieved October 31, 2007. The novel has had significant linguistic influence, popularizing such terms as cyberspace and ICE ( Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics). Gibson himself coined the term "cyberspace" in his novelette " Burning Chrome", published in 1982 by Omni magazine, [19] but it was through its use in Neuromancer that it gained recognition to become the de facto term for the World Wide Web during the 1990s. [ citation needed] The portion of Neuromancer usually cited in this respect is:

Neuromancer the Opera is an adaptation written by Jayne Wenger and Marc Lowenstein (libretto) and Richard Marriott of the Club Foot Orchestra (music). A production was scheduled to open on March 3, 1995 at the Julia Morgan Theater (now the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts) in Berkeley, California, featuring Club Foot Orchestra in the pit and extensive computer graphics imagery created by a world-wide network of volunteers. However, this premiere did not take place and the work has yet to be performed in full. [32] Film [ edit ] Burning Chrome (1986, preface by Bruce Sterling), collects Gibson's early short fiction, listed by original publication date: