William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Pattern Recognition.
Biography
Science fiction owes an enormous debt to William Gibson, the cyberpunk pioneer who revolutionized the genre with his startling stories of tough, alienated loners adrift in a world of sinister high technology.
Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, and spent much of his youth in Virginia with his widowed mother. He grew up shy and bookish, discovering science fiction and the literature of the beats at a precociously early age. When he was 15, he was sent away to private school in Arizona, but he left without graduating when his mother died suddenly. He fled to Canada to avoid the draft and immersed himself in '60s counterculture. He married, moved to British Columbia, and enrolled in college, graduating in 1977 with a degree in English. Around this time he began to write in earnest, combining his lifelong love of science fiction and his newfound passion for the punk music evolving in New York and London.
In the early 1980s, Gibson met writer and punk musician John Shirley and sci-fi authors Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling. All three were blown away by the power and originality of Gibson's stories, and together the four men went on to forge a radical new literary movement called cyberpunk. In 1984, Gibson's groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, was published. Daring and revolutionary, it envisioned such techno-marvels as AI, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and multinational capitalism years before they became realities. Although it was not an immediate sensation, Neuromancer struck a chord with hardcore sci-fi fans who turned it into a word-of-mouth hit. Then it won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards (the Triple Crown of Science Fiction), catapulting Gibson into superstardom overnight.
Even if he had never written another word, Gibson's impact would be clearly seen in the works of such cutting-edge contemporary authors as Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Paul DiFilippo. But, as it is, Neuromancer was just the beginning -- the first book in an inspired trilogy that has come to be considered a benchmark in the history of the genre; and since then, Gibson has gone on to create even more visionary science fiction, including The Difference Engine, a steampunk classic co-authored with Bruce Sterling, and such imaginative post-9/11 cyber thrillers as Pattern Recognition and Spook Country .
"Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene. It permeated into our consciousness, our culture, our science, and our technology. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer showed us what we were capable of creating and what we were capable of destroying - and illuminated the dark corners of the path we were headed down." Today, we have this science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing our way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become our own. And yet, William Gibson's vision still manages to inspire the minds that will take us ever further into the future.
塞博朋客科幻小说鼻祖,星云,雨果,以及菲利普 狄克三项世界科幻界最高奖黄袍加身,加拿大作家威廉.吉布森1984年的不世名作<Neuromancer/神经浪游者>的电影版终于要在2009年和我们见面了! 自从威廉.吉布森与布鲁斯.斯特灵一个主实践一个主理论在80年代中开创塞博朋客流派,斯蒂芬...
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評分如果是5年前看这本书,可能会觉得不知所云。书中所写的那些事情完全超乎常人的想象范围。随着互联网的兴起,虚拟空间与每个人的真实生活渐渐分不开了。此时再看此书,不禁“呵”地一声!只能佩服作者非凡的幻想力。以《骇客帝国》为代表的一大批幻想数字世界的影片,很明显...
評分http://blog.pixnet.net/post/AITNOG/175494 (載於《科科電子報》No. 43;2000年12月05日) William Ford Gibson,「電馭叛客」(Cyberpunk)科幻文學的創派宗師與代表人物。1948年03月17 日於美國南卡羅萊納州出生,19歲隨母移民加拿大多倫多市,於1972年偕妻子遷居溫哥華...
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不是很有感覺 但畢竟是薑峯楠最喜歡的作傢之一 所以就讀瞭...
评分後麵纔慢慢有瞭沉浸感,作為塑料英文使用者覺得這個風格還挺難讀的。情節本身很充實,可是看著覺得角色們好纍啊。
评分somebody's gotta be funny, sure the f isn't you!
评分終於看完瞭這本傳說中第一本最牛逼的cyberpunk,故事本身就復雜無比,寫作風格相當狂亂,說實在閱讀快感幾乎沒有,抑或是被快速跳轉的場景衝散瞭意識;這一定是姿勢不對的緣故!看瞭下麵古龍版簡介纔能迅速重吸收那些cyberpunk的思想精華
评分太難瞭。
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