Articles tagged "william gibson"

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The New American Spook Country

by L.B. Jeffries

[30.Sep.09] :. Spook Country is about America’s loss of innocence, its various ways of remembering the past, and an attempt to find a way of reconciling those memories with the present.

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The Stories Industrial Designs Tell

by Jillian Burt

[2.Dec.07] :. The Dyson Airblade is launched in Sydney and the wild new world 21st century design writers must come to grips with.

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Olaf Stapledon: Of His Time, and Others

by L.B. Jeffries

[16.Nov.07] :. To sit and complain about the lack of credit Stapledon receives is to undermine the very principle for which he was writing about: mankind's yearning for community.

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After the Silicon Rush

by Patrick Schabe

[13.Nov.07] :. In the 20-plus years since cyberpunk threw down a gauntlet to science fiction and stormed the cultural gates, its vision has been praised, criticized, absorbed, and integrated into the mainstream. Does post-cyberpunk have something new to offer?

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Spook Country by William Gibson

by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[24.Oct.07] :. Apparently some critics look at Gibson's work and think, "Mmm, no coherent story, big reputation -- that must mean it's lit'rature!"

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Reading About APEC

by Jillian Burt

[5.Sep.07] :. September 4, yesterday, was the day that George Bush arrived in Sydney. I waited for the time to shift to September 4 in America so that I could listen to a preview of Bruce Springsteen’s new...

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Spook Country by William Gibson

by Claudia Smith Brinson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[21.Aug.07] :. Spook Country follows complex path of post-9/11 mentality.

William Gibson Maps Mediated World in New Novel

by Jillian Burt

[16.Jul.07] :. A new William Gibson book is a state-of-the-union address on the mediated world. “I think we’ve been growing a prosthetic extended nervous system for the last hundred years or so, and...

William Gibson: No Maps For These Territories (2003)

by Scott Thill

[10.Feb.04] :. William Gibson is a visionary in his own right, and painting him into the reductive sci-fi corner is akin to missing the point of his work.

All Tomorrow’s Parties

by Patrick Schabe

So, there I am, re-reading for the umpteenth time one of my favorite books of all time (Neuromancer) by one of my favorite authors of all time (William Gibson) for a grad school class....