William Gibson, Author . Putnam $25.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-399-14986-3
Gibson, known as the "patron saint of cyberpunk lit," has made his reputation with futuristic tales. Though his new novel is set in the present, baroque descriptions of everyday articles and menacing anthropomorphic treatment of the Internet
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William Gibson, Author . Putnam $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15430-0
Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition
, Gibson’s fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented, postmodern world. When a mysterious, not yet actual magazine, Node
, hires former indie...
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William Gibson, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07499-4
In his first solo novel in five years, Gibson ( Neuromancer ) hasn't entirely left his cyberpunk baggage behind, but he has brought his vision closer to home. It's California, circa 2005: the rich are even richer and the poor, of course, poorer; the
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William Gibson, Author Putnam $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-399-14130-0
The founding father of cyberpunk again returns to the techno-decadent 21st century mapped in his other major works (Virtual Light, Neuromancer, etc.). As usual, Gibson offers a richly imagined tale that finds semi-innocents wading hip-deep into...
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William Gibson, Putnam, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15682-3
Opposing forces contend violently over what are in the end ephemeral trivialities, the minutiae of modern fashion, in Gibson's quirky tale of 21st-century brand positioning. The attention of eccentric financial genius Hubertus Bigend, seen...
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William Gibson, Author Spectra Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-56606-2
Gibson's cyberpunk thriller set in a near-future L.A.--a two-week PW bestseller--depicts the hunt for virtual reality glasses containing classified data. (Aug.)
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William Gibson, Author Arbor House Publishing $15.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-87795-769-0
Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, was greeted with hosannas and showered with awards. This second book, set in the same universe, again offers a faddish, glitzy surface not unlike that of Miami Vice. Gibson's central image is the shadow boxes...
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William Gibson, Author Arbor House $15.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-87795-780-5
In his enthusiastic description of the '30s and '40s ""moderne'' style of industrial design (featured in one of these stories), Gibson might be writing about his own work: ``The change was only skin-deep; under the streamlined chrome shell, you'd...
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William Gibson, Author Spectra Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05250-3
Gibson burst upon the scene in 1984 with Neuromancer, a revolutionary, innovative novel that not only gathered up just about every award in the SF field, but also virtually invented a new sub-genre, which has come to be called ``cyberpunk.'' He...
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William Gibson, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-399-14579-7
Gibson is in fine form in his seventh novel, a fast-paced, pyrotechnic sequel to Idoru. In the early 21st century, the world has survived any number of millennial events, including major earthquakes in Tokyo and San Francisco, the expansion of the...
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William Gibson, Author Ace Books $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-441-01203-9
William Gibson fans will welcome the 20th-anniversary edition of Neuromancer, the SF novel that launched cyberpunk and anticipated the Internet age. Gibson provides a new introduction, ""The Sky Above the Port."" .
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William Gibson, Author, Bruce Sterling, With Spectra Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07028-6
In a surprising departure from the traditional view of cyberpunk's bleak future, Gibson ( Mona Lisa Overdrive ) and Sterling ( Islands in the Net ) render with elan and colorful detail a scientifically advanced London, circa 1855, where computers (``
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William Gibson, Author, Robertson Dean, Read by , read by Robertson Dean. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314220-1
Robertson Dean’s deep, soothing tones anchor this post-9/11 thriller, a follow-up to Pattern Recognition
. Told from three third-person perspectives, the story concerns a journalist backed by a mysterious Belgian industrialist, a young Cuban-Ch
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William Gibson. Putnam, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-15844-5
Seminal cyberpunk author Gibson, who has spent the last several years writing the more-or-less present-day Zero History series of novels, returns to the future with this slow-burning thriller, ambitiously structured on either side of an economic and
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William Gibson, read by Lorelei King. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 14 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-1-61176-335-5
Reader King does a fine job presenting this complex tale of alternate futures, nefarious plots, time travel, and gruesome crimes. In the not-so-distant-future, gamer Flynne Fisher is covering a beta-testing shift for her ex-Marine brother when she...
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William Gibson. Berkley, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-101-98693-6
Cyberpunk pioneer Gibson disappoints with this inventive but jumbled prequel to The Periphery. In 2017, gifted “app whisperer” Verity Jane is hired to beta test a pair of eye-glasses that double as an artificial intelligence assistant named Eunice....
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William Gibson et al. IDW, $24.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-63140-875-5
SF grandmaster Gibson (The Peripheral) mines the rich pseudoscience mythology surrounding World War II, or “The Weird War,” in his Eisner-nominated first comic foray, cowritten with Smith. In an alternate 2016, corrupt U.S. political leaders rule a...
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