Really satisfied with this book - a very thorough conclusion to the trilogy.Again it was a fast paced and enjoyable story telling. It neatly tied off the story of key players of the first books, including a sympathetic conclusion for Cayce Pollard.However Gibson's weak points as a writer were exp...
Distrust That Particular Flavour is a collection of non-fiction pieces by William Gibson, published between the late 1980s and the modern day. I read them bit by bit while reading other books, because while Gibson’s a good writer, his style and choice of topics can easily be repetitive.There are ...
I have read “Neuromancer” and “Count Zero” and I consider myself a fan of William Gibson’s. I decided it was time to dig into the third and final book of his cyberpunk “Sprawl trilogy”.SUMMARYLike the previous two books, a number of separate stories, each with their own viewpoint character, conve...
William Gibson can write. I keep exploring this in different ways and different words as I read through Gibson’s oeuvre, but in the end it comes down to two appropriately alliterative words: William Gibson has voice and vision. He has a way with language that not every writer, even really good on...
“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan“We have no future because our present is too volatile... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.” – Herbertus Bigend, Pattern Recognition---Pattern Recognition is the story of an eccentric tren...
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.When he was a child in an orphanage in Florida, Colin Laney participated in a research study in which he was given a drug that allows him to visualize and extract meaningful information from endless streams of internet data. Laney now has the ability to see...
I finished reading William Gibson's newest novel, Spook Country, a few days ago and have been trying to figure out how I feel about it. It is one of the few books I have eagerly scooped up in hardcover, I loved his Pattern Recognition so much. The promise of another book set in what can only be c...
Adapted from ISawLightningFall.comIf the novel is a sojourn in a foreign land, short stories are trips to the municipal park. Much of their provinciality is a function of length. Long-form fiction has the space to luxuriate in detail, dwelling on tertiary characters, describing each bit of their ...
Scroll down for the English version.Il padre del cyberpunk non mi ha convinto Questo romanzo mi ha lasciato perplessa sin dalle sue prime righe. Ammetto di aver riletto la prima pagina un paio di volte, poiché non mi era chiaro di chi stesse parlando, dove si trovasse e soprattutto cosa stesse fa...
Did you read Neuromancer and say, "This was good, but it could have used more steampunk?" That's kind of how one might describe The Difference Engine: Neuromancer meets steampunk. It's not a comprehensive, completely accurate description, but if that's sufficient for you, you can stop reading n...