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Cyberpunk literature: Cyberpunk novels, Cyberpunk writers, Steampunk literature, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, William Gibson, The Diamond Age, Bruce
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November 2011
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Soziologie |
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9781156435717 |
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9781156435717 |
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Books LLC, Reference Series |
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Kartoniert |
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English
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H 246 mm / B 189 mm / D 4 mm |
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175 gr |
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80 |
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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Chapters: Cyberpunk novels, Cyberpunk writers, Steampunk literature, Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer, William Gibson, The Diamond Age, Bruce Sterling, The Shockwave Rider, Snow Crash, Pat Cadigan, Labyrinth of Reflections, Cory Doctorow, István Cs. Bartos, False Mirrors, Islands in the Net, Count Zero, Charles Stross, All Tomorrow's Parties, John Shirley, He, She and It, Skinner's Room, Rudy Rucker, Ware Tetralogy, Babylon Babies, When Gravity Fails, Virtual Light, Idoru, Hinterlands, Johnny Mnemonic, Lewis Shiner, Red Star, Winter Orbit, Dr. Adder, The Winter Market, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Shikari in Galveston, Steampunk Magazine, Wetware, Fran Ilich, Richard Kadrey, The Gernsback Continuum, Manna, Bruce Bethke, Futureland, Software, Transparent Stained-Glass Windows, True Names, New Rose Hotel, Budayeen Nights, The Exile Kiss, Signal to Noise, A Fire in the Sun, The Belonging Kind, Gaslight Grimoire, Tea from an Empty Cup, Dreaming Metal, Tom Maddox, Breakpoint, Ambient, Polymorph, Dogfight, Mindplayers, Night Sky Mine, Eclipse Trilogy, Voice of the Whirlwind, Lisa Mason, Fragments of a Hologram Rose, Mirrorshades, Jeu Azarru, Trouble and Her Friends, A Signal Shattered, The Enclaves. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans-a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre. Although much of Gibson's reputation has remained associated with Neuromancer, his work has continued to evolve. After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre-steampunk-with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling. In the 1990s, he composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which focused on sociological observations of |
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