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William Gibson
What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities…
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Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world’s coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a…
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Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online…
The Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel that defined the Cyberpunk movement.
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They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer’, and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas.
Nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, COUNT ZERO is book two of William Gibson’s groundbreaking Neuromancer Trilogy.
Pat Cadigan
Winner of the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD, and shortlisted for the NEBULA, SYNNERS is a classic of cyberpunk fiction.
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The final volume of Hugo and Nebula Award-winner William Gibson’s seminal Neuromancer Trilogy.
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William Gibson,William Gibson
Though primarily known as a novelist, over thirty years the author has also built up a reputation as one of our most entertaining and insightful critics of contemporary culture. This…
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William Gibson,Bruce Sterling
‘A visionary steam-powered heavy metal fantasy. Gibson and Sterling create a high-Victorian virtual reality of extraordinary richness and detail’ Ridley Scott, creator of ALIEN
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Tom Henthorne
William Gibson, author of the cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer (1984), is one today’s most widely read science fiction writers. This companion is meant both for general readers and for scholars interested…
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Former hit singer Hollis is down on her luck after the Crash and can’t turn down the offer of a job again from mysterious global ad agency, Blue Ant. Stanley…
Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going…
Hollis Henry, former rock singe- turned-journalist, has very reluctantly agreed to work for the secretive Belgian finance genius Hubertus Bigend again–only to find herself entangled in a threatening mesh of…
One of the most visionary…and quietly influential writers currently working (Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to The Peripheral that is heavily influenced by current events.
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Twenty-first century Tokyo. Rez, one of the world’s biggest rock stars, is about to marry Rei Toei, Japan’s biggest media star. The only problem is, Rei Toei–the Idoru –exists only…
William Hamilton Gibson
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
William L. Gibson
This book critically examines the often-tense relationship between keramat and authority, both secular and religious, from colonial to modern times.
A vital resource for scholars, this work contributes to a…
Gary Westfahl
Describes for the first time more than eighty virtually unknown Gibson publications from his early years, including articles, reviews, poems, cartoons, letters, and a collaborative story.
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Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen’s discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, Neuromancer (1984), created the subgenre of Cyberpunk, and…
Traditional Chinese edition of Neuromancer
Gerald Miller Jr
Offers a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. This study situates Gibson as a major figure in both…
Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History
Features interviews with one of the most celebrated science-fiction authors of the last 50 years. This book draws together 23 interviews from a variety of media and sources - print…
William Shakespeare
This edition of The Sonnets provides a new look at Shakespeare’s poems, encouraging students to work both individually and in groups to form their own responses to the sonnets.
John Coleman Adams
William Hamilton Gibson was a highly influential figure in American naturalism, celebrating the beauty of the natural world through his stunning artwork and literature. This book is a fascinating study…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for William Gibson’s Neuromancer, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for…
William Gibson is frequently described as one of the most influential writers of the past few decades, yet his body of work has only been studied partially and without full…
Andrew J. Williams, Alasdair Gordon-Gibson
Fully revised and updated in its third edition, this timely book brings together the study of conflict and war and the problems surrounding economic development of developing societies who are…
A Study Guide for William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Pat Cadigan,William Gibson
The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning "Queen of Cyberpunk."
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.
Dani Cavallaro
Explores the work of a range of writers - Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shirley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other…
The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning Queen of Cyberpunk.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
When Katie learns that there is a huge world outside of her small quiet town, she decides to take a trip to see all the marvelous structures and amazing scenery…
