GQ: "He coined the term cyberspace before we even knew cyberspace existed. He imagined reality TV years before it was everywhere. He's made the leap from cult novelist to mega-selling oracle by writing intensely enjoyable techno-thrillers about viral-ad agencies and shadowy clothing designers and Cuban-Chinese data traffickers. And while William Gibson insists that he's the last guy to know what's coming next, predictions he made decades ago keep coming true. Which is a little alarming, actually. Because his new novel, The Peripheral, is his most dire yet."
Als Bonus ein sehr gutes Interview mit Gibson aus dem Jahr 1999 (?): "Das ganze "Star Wars"-Universum, mit all dem Franchising und den vielen Produkten, ist etwas, das sich der Konsument in unterschiedlichen Modulen zusammenkaufen kann. Doch es bleibt kein Raum für etwas eigenes übrig. Das ist einer der Gründe, warum ich es nicht mag. Das ist mir zu starr. Für den Betrachter bleibt kein Raum, um darin zu interagieren." Weiter
"Distrust That Particular Flavor, a collection of non-fiction writing, is the latest work (published in 2012) of author William Gibson. The pieces in Distrust That Particular Flavor were written between the late 1980s and 2010. Some were originally published as magazine articles in Time, Rolling Stone, and Wired. Some appeared as forewords to books by other authors. Several speeches appear in written form for the first time." Read on at en.wikipedia.org.
wikipedia.org: "Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet." Read on
"Mark Wahlberg and Liam Neeson are mulling over offers to headline director Vicenzo Natali’s long-gestating adaptation of Neuromancer, based on the classic literary offering by William Gibson." Read on
wgbh.org: "William Gibson, the revolutionary science fiction novelist who coined the phrase “cyberspace,” looks back on his 30-year career in his new collection of essays, Distrust That Particular Flavor." Read on
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"During the Toronto International Film Festival, a room full of Industry Delegates met with an audience of Gaming and New Media experts to listen in on a panel discussion about the development of the up and coming adaptation of William Gibson?s Neuromancer as both a film and a video game." Read on
"If you’d gone to a publisher in 1981 with a proposal for a science-fiction novel that consisted of a really clear and simple description of the world today, they’d have read your proposal and said, Well, it’s impossible. This is ridiculous. This doesn’t even make any sense. Granted, you have half a dozen powerful and really excellent plot drivers for that many science-fiction novels, but you can’t have them all in one novel.
Fossil fuels have been discovered to be destabilizing the planet’s climate, with possibly drastic consequences. There’s an epidemic, highly contagious, lethal sexual disease that destroys the human immune system, raging virtually uncontrolled throughout much of Africa. New York has been attacked by Islamist fundamentalists, who have destroyed the two tallest buildings in the city, and the United States in response has invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
You haven’t even gotten to the Internet. By the time you were telling about the Internet, they’d be showing you the door. It’s just too much science fiction." Read on at www.theparisreview.org
bbc.co.uk: "This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is William Gibson. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island." Read on
What is Desert Island Discs?
BBC: "The format is simple – a guest is invited to choose eight discs, a book and a luxury to take with them as they’re castaway on a mythical desert island. During the interview they explain their choices and discuss key moments in their lives, people and events that have influenced and inspired them and brought them to where they are today"
abc.net.au: "Originally broadcast on 31 March 1994. William Gibson, dubbed the prophet of cyberpunk, gives his take on the future of cyberspace, and his predictions are incredibly accurate." Read on