The new William Gibson novel, Pattern Recognition, is incredibly appealing for many reasons (elegant writing, oddly beautiful detached sense of time) but one is the way it taps into using an ...

I'm not gonna do a very in-depth review.<BR><BR>I guess I enjoyed the book. The story was not nearly as good as 'Neuromancer' which is his only other book I've read, but its interesting. You can tell ...

Gibson, known as the "patron saint of cyberpunk lit," has made his reputation with futuristic tales. Though his new novel is set in the present, baroque descriptions of everyday articles and menacing ...

Right now, across higher ed land, William Gibson’s latest novel, Agency, is being read for clues about our possible futures. Gibson famously said, “The future is already here. It’s just not very ...

Some readers might need their own pop-culture glossaries to tap into "Pattern Recognition," William Gibson's first novel set in the present day. Gibson, credited with coining the term "cyberspace" and ...

Advertising and Calculators in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. In Pattern Recognition (2003), Gibson imagines a world in which what is today considered non-traditional advertising becomes the ...

Inventor of cyber-punk William Gibson says that his new novel, though set in the future, is realistic. How did this popular prophet become capable of predicting reality? And what is his relationship ...

The Future is Now: William Gibson unplugged. Kinda. “See-bare-espace… it is everting,” William Gibson speaks through a French art dealer early in Spook Country. Enunciated so cutely, the phrase ...