William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.īut like many of his books, this sequel is only that in regard to a return to the original setting, Count Zero works as a stand alone. The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology. While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in his first novel, Neuromancer(1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction author Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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