Works of William Gibson

The works of William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in "Burning Chrome" (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel "Neuromancer". [cite book
last= Prucher
first= Jeff
title= Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
publisher= Oxford University Press
date= 2007
pages= 31
isbn= 9780195305678
oclc= 76074298] cite journal |url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/gibson.html |title=Remembering Johnny: Notes on a process |accessdate=2008-01-10 |last=van Bakel |first=Rogier |journal=Wired |year=1995 |month=June | issue=3.06] Gibson's early short fiction is recognized as cyberpunk's finest work,cite book | last = McCaffery | first = Larry | title = Storming the Reality Studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction | publisher = Duke University Press | location = Durham, North Carolina | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780822311683 | oclc = 23384573] effectively renovating the science fiction genre which had been hitherto considered widely insignificant.cite web | last =Rapatzikou | first =Tatiani | title ="William Gibson." | work =The Literary Encyclopedia | publisher =The Literary Dictionary Company | date =2003-06-17 | url =http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5198 | accessdate =2007-08-27]

At the turn of the 1990s, after the completion of his Sprawl trilogy of novels, Gibson contributed the text to a number of performance art pieces and exhibitions,cite news |first=Paul |last=Goldberger |title=In San Francisco, A Good Idea Falls With a Thud |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DB103CF931A2575BC0A966958260 |work=Architecture View |publisher=The New York Times |date=1990-08-12 |accessdate=2007-11-06 ] as well as writing lyrics for musicians Yellow Magic Orchestra and Deborah Harry. He wrote the critically acclaimed artist's book "Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)" in 1992 before co-authoring "The Difference Engine", an alternate history novel that would become a central work of the steampunk genre.cite news | first = Peter | last = Bebergal | title = The age of steampunk | url = http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/26/the_age_of_steampunk/ | publisher = The Boston Globe | page = 3 | date = 2007-08-26 | accessdate = 2007-10-14] He then spent an unfruitful period as a Hollywood screenwriter, with few of his projects seeing the light of day and those that did being critically unsuccessful. [ [http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/johnny_mnemonic/ Johnny Mnemonic] at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-01-15.]

Although he had largely abandoned short fiction by the mid-1990s, Gibson returned to writing novels, completing his second trilogy, the Bridge trilogy at the close of the millennium. After writing two episodes of the television series "The X-Files" around this time, Gibson was featured as the subject of a documentary film, "No Maps for These Territories", in 2000.cite video |people=Mark Neale (director), William Gibson (subject) |title=No Maps for These Territories |publisher=Docurama |medium=Documentary |year2=2000 ] Gibson has been invited to address the National Academy of Sciences (1993) and the Directors Guild of America (2003) and has had a plethora of articles published in outlets such as "Wired", "Rolling Stone" and "The New York Times". His latest novels, "Pattern Recognition" (2003) and "Spook Country" (2007) have put Gibson's work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. [cite web |url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030510/ai_n12684401 |title=Books: Hardbacks |accessdate=2007-07-08 |last=Hirst |first=Christopher |date=2003-05-10 |publisher=The Independent]

Novels

* Sprawl trilogy:
*# "Neuromancer" (1984)
*# "Count Zero" (1986)
*# "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (1988)
* "The Difference Engine" (1990; with Bruce Sterling)
* Bridge trilogy:
*# "Virtual Light" (1993)
*# "Idoru" (1996)
*# "All Tomorrow's Parties" (1999)
* "Pattern Recognition" (2003)
* "Spook Country" (2007)

Short fiction

Collected

"Burning Chrome" (1986, Preface by Bruce Sterling):
* "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (Summer 1977, "UnEarth 3")
* "Johnny Mnemonic" (May 1981, "Omni")
* "The Gernsback Continuum" (1981, "Universe 11")
* "Hinterlands" (October 1981, "Omni")
* "New Rose Hotel" (July 1984, "Omni")
* "The Belonging Kind", with John Shirley (1981, "Shadows 4")
* "Burning Chrome" (July 1982, "Omni")
* "Red Star, Winter Orbit", with Bruce Sterling (July 1983, "Omni")
* "The Winter Market" (Nov 1985, "Vancouver")
* "Dogfight", with Michael Swanwick (July 1985, "Omni")

Uncollected

ted version of which formed the setting forGibson's short story "Skinner's Room" (1990). He would later revisit the setting in his Bridge trilogy of novels.]
* —. "Tokyo Collage" in "SF Eye", August 1988.
* —. "Tokyo Suite" in "Penthouse" (Japanese edition) 1988/5-7. Translated by Hisashi Kuroma.
* —. "Hippy Hat Brain Parasite" in Shiner, Lewis, "Modern Stories" No. 1, April 1983. Republished in cite book | last = Rucker | first = Rudy | authorlink = Rudy Rucker | title = SemiotextE Sf | publisher = Autonomedia | location = Brooklyn |pages= 109-122 | year = 1989 | isbn = 0-936756-43-8
* —. "The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders" (unpublished)cite web
url = http://www.dthomasmaddox.com/virus23.html
title = Maddox on Gibson
accessdate = 2007-10-26
last = Maddox
first = Tom
authorlink = Tom Maddox
year = 1989
quote = This story originally appeared in a Canadian 'zine, Virus 23, 1989.]
* —. "Doing Television" in cite book | last = Dorsey | first = Candas Jane | authorlink = Candas Jane Dorsey | title = Tesseracts 3 | publisher =Porcépic | location = Victoria |pages= 392-394 | year = 1990 | isbn = 0-88878-290-X | oclc=24504625
* —. "Darwin" (a slightly longer version of "Doing Television") in "The Face", March 1990, and "Spin", April 1990, 21-23.cite web |url= http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/wgibson_biblio1.html |title=Bibliography of Works By William Gibson |accessdate=2007-09-09 |date=2007-05-17 |work=Centre for Language and Literature |publisher=Athabasca University] cite web|url= http://www.skierpage.com/gibson/biblio.htm |title=William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy |accessdate = 2007-10-17 |author = S. Page]
* —. "Skinner's Room" in cite book | last = Polledri | first = Paolo | title = Visionary San Francisco | publisher = Prestal | location = Munich | pages = 153-65 | year = 1990 | isbn = 3-7913-1060-7 Republished in cite book | authorlink = Larry McCaffery | last = Mccaffery | first = Larry | title = After Yesterday's Crash | publisher = Penguin Books | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-14-024085-3
* —. "Academy Leader" in cite book | last = Benedikt | first = Michael | title = Cyberspace | publisher = MIT Press | location = Cambridge | pages = 27-29 | year = 1991 | isbn = 0-262-52177-6
* —. " [http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_12_01_archive.asp#110391590837685350 Cyber-Claus] " in "The Washington Post" Book World, 1991-12-01. Republished in cite book | last = Hartwell | first = David | authorlink = David G. Hartwell | title = Christmas Stars | publisher = Tor Books | location = New York | year = 1992 | isbn = 0-8125-2286-9
* —. "Where the Holograms Go" in cite book | last = Trilling | first = Roger | title = Wild Palms Reader | publisher = St Martins Pr | location = City |pages = 122-23 | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-312-09083-8
* —. "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" in cite book | last = Garnett | first = David | authorlink = David S. Garnett | title = New Worlds | publisher = White Wolf Pub | location = Clarkston | pages = 338-349 | year = 1997 | isbn = 1-56504-190-9 Republished in cite book | last = Kelly | first = James | title = | publisher = Tachyon Publications | location = San Francisco | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-1-892391-53-7

Excerpted

*"Mona Lisa Overdrive":
** "The Silver Walks" in "High Times", November 1987cite web
url = http://www.locusmag.com/index/s296.html |title = Stories, Listed by Author |accessdate = 2007-10-29 |last = Brown |first = Charles N. |authorlink = Charles N. Brown |coauthors = William G. Contento |year = 2004-07-10 |work = The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984–1998) |publisher= Locus |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20070304205021/http://www.locusmag.com/index/s296.html |archivedate=2007-03-04]
** "Kumi in the Smoke" ("Kemuri no naka no kumi") (1988)
*"The Difference Engine" (with Bruce Sterling):
**"The Angel of Goliad" in "Interzone" issue 40, 1990
*"Idoru":
**"Lo Rez Skyline" in "Rolling Stone" issue 735, May 30, 1996.

Screenplays

*"Johnny Mnemonic" (1995)
* "Kill Switch", "First Person Shooter". "The X-Files". (1998, 2000). [cite web |url= http://www.streettech.com/archives_Special/maddoxSpecial.html |title=Tom Maddox Unreal-Time Chat |accessdate=2007-07-13 |work=Shop Talk ]

Unrealized

*"Burning Chrome" – adaptation of "Burning Chrome" (1982)cite interview |last=Gibson |first=William |interviewer=Giuseppe Salza |city=Cannes |year=1994 |month=May |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/235 |accessdate=2007-10-28]
*"Neuro-Hotel"
*"Alien³" (late 1980s)

Screen appearances

Acting appearances

* "Wild Palms". (1993)cite web|url=http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2006_07_01_archive.asp#115361118165031237 |title=Where The Holograms Go |first=William |last=Gibson |date=2006-07-22 |accessdate=2007-11-26]
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312974/ Mon amour mon parapluie] ". (2002) [cite web |url=http://64.207.169.13/mamp/cast/cast.htm |title=Cast |accessdate=2007-10-26 |work=Mon Amour Mon Parapluie ]
* "First Person Shooter", "X-Files" (2000)

Documentaries

* [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-580-3157/life_society/hippies/clip3 Yorkville: Hippie haven - Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion] , [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-1587-10799/life_society/60s/clip11 Yorkville, a hippie haven - 1960s a GoGo] (1967)
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398910/ Cyberpunk] " (1990)
* "No Maps for These Territories" (2000)
* "Cyberman" (2001)

Television appearances

* "Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon" (1993)
* "Making of Johnny Mnemonic" (1995)
* "The X-Files Movie Special" (1998)
* "The Screen Savers", 2003-02-05. (2003)
* " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0522237/ Bestseller samtalen] " (2003)
* "Webnation", [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129325/ episode 1.14] . (2007)

Articles

* —. "Alfred Bester, SF and Me", "Frontier crossings : A souvenir of the 45th World Science Fiction Convention, Conspiracy '87", Robert Jackson ed., (1987) OCLC|78913436
* —. " [http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/gibson_rocketradio.shtml Rocket Radio] " (1989), "Rolling Stone", June 15, 1989
* —. "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" (1993), "Wired", 1.04
* —. " [http://www.yoz.com/wired/1.03/features/gibson.html Remembering Johnny: Notes on a Process] " (1995), "Wired", 3.06, June 1995.
* —. " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E7DD1E39F937A25754C0A960958260 The Net Is a Waste of Time…and That's Exactly What's Right About It] " (1996), "New York Times Magazine" 1996-07-14: 31.
* —. "'Virtual Lit': A Discussion" (1996) "Biblion: The Bulletin of The New York Public Library", Fall 1996: 33-51.cite web |url= http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/wgibson_biblio1.html |title=Bibliography of Works By William Gibson |accessdate=2007-09-09 |date=2007-05-17 |work=Centre for Language and Literature |publisher=Athabasca University] ISSN|1064-301X OCLC|26244071
* —. "Jack WomakSic and the Horned Heart of Neuropa" (1997) "Science Fiction Eye", Fall 1997. ISSN|1071-3018 OCLC|22440318
* —. " [http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_01_01_archive.asp Dead Man Sings] " (1998) "Forbes ASAP", 30 November, 1998 supp.: 177. ISSN|1078-9901 OCLC|173437996
* —. "William Gibson's fiction of cyber-eternity may become a reality." (1999) "HQ" issue 63 : 122, March 1, 1999. ISSN|1321-9820 OCLC|173343432
* —. " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/ebay.html My Obsession] " (1999), "Wired", 7.01
* —. " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.10/gibson.html William Gibson's Filmless Festival] " (1999), "Wired", 7.10
* —. " [http://web.archive.org/web/20010417011251/www.addict.com/issues/6.03/html/hifi/Cover_Story/Gibson_Essay/ Steely Dan's Return] " (2000) "Addicted To Noise" Issue 6.03, March 1, 2000
* —. " [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997261-1,00.html Will We Plug Chips Into Our Brains?] " (2000) "TIME", June 19, 2000.
* —. cite news |title=Modern boys and mobile girls |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,,466391,00.html |work=The Japan issue |publisher="The Observer" |date=2001-04-01 |accessdate=2007-10-28
* —. " [http://wholeearth.com/ArticleBin/436.html Metrophagy] " (2001) "Whole Earth", Summer 2001.
* —. " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/gibson.html My Own Private Tokyo] " (2001), "Wired", 9.09
* —. " [http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_02_01_archive.asp#90366686 Blasted Dreams in Mr. Buk's Window] " (2001), "National Post", 2001-09-20
* —. "Shiny Balls Of Mud" (2002), "Tate Magazine", issue 1, September/October 2002. OCLC|33825791 ISSN|1351-3737
* —. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/opinion/25GIBS.html?ex=1371960000&en=d57cc2565eb4ec57&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND The Road to Oceania] " (2003), "The New York Times", 2003-06-25
* —. " [http://www.infinitematrix.net/faq/essays/gibson.html Time Machine Cuba] " (2004), "Infinite Matrix", August 8, 2004
* —. " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gibson.html God's Little Toys] " (2005), "Wired", 13.7
* —. " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/u2.html U2's City of Blinding Lights] " (2005), "Wired", 13.8

Forewords, introductions and afterwords

* —. cite book | last = Shirley | first = John | title = Heatseeker | authorlink =John Shirley |publisher = Scream/Press | location = Santa Cruz | year = 1989 | isbn = 0-91048-926-2
* —. cite book | last = Datlow | first = Ellen | title = Alien Sex | publisher = Dutton | location = New York | year = 1990 | isbn = 0-525-24863-3
* —. cite book | last = Delany | first = Samuel | authorlink=Samuel Delany | title = Dhalgren | publisher = Wesleyan University Press | location = Middletown | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-8195-6299-8
* —. cite book | last = Shirley | first = John | title = City Come a-Walkin' | publisher = Eyeball Books | location = City | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-9642505-1-9 cite web|url= http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/gibson.html |title=Foreword to "City Come a-walkin'" |date=1996-03-31|accessdate=2007-05-01| first=William|last=Gibson]
* —. cite book | last = Kuipers | first = Dean | title = Ray Gun: out of Control | publisher = Booth-Clibborn Editions | location = London | year = 2000 | isbn = 1-861540-40-X
* —. cite book | last = Sterling | first = Bruce | authorlink=Bruce Sterling | title = The Artificial Kid | publisher = Hardwired | year = 1997 | isbn = 1-888869-16-X
* —. cite book | last = Davidson | first = Avram | authorlink=Avram Davidson | title = The Avram Davidson Treasury | publisher = Tor | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-312-86729-8
* —. cite book | last = Carter | first = Chris | authorlink = Chris Carter | title = The Art of the X Files | publisher = HarperPrism | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-06-105037-7
* —. cite book | last = Wachowski | first = Larry | authorlink= Wachowski brothers | title = The Art of the Matrix | publisher = Titan Books | year = 2000 | isbn = 1-84023-173-4
* —. cite book | last = Packer | first = Randall | title = Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality | publisher = Norton | location = New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 0-393-04979-5
* —. cite book | last = Wachowski | first = Larry | title = The Matrix: the Shooting Script | publisher = Newmarket Press | location = New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 1-55704-490-2
* —. cite book | last = Turner | first = Michael | title = American Whiskey Bar | publisher = Arsenal Pulp Press | year = 2004 | isbn = 1-55152-159-8
* —. cite book | last = Gunn | first = Eileen | authorlink = Eileen Gunn | title = Stable Strategies and Others | publisher = Tachyon Publications | location = San Francisco | year = 2004 | isbn = 1-892391-18-X
* —. cite book | last = Smith | first = Marquard | title = Stelarc: The Monograph | publisher = MIT Press | location = Cambridge | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-262-19518-6
* —. cite book | last = Borges | first = Jorge | authorlink = Jorge Luis Borges | title = Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings | publisher = New Directions | location = New York | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-8112-1699-9
* —. cite book | last = Girard | first = Greg | title = Phantom Shanghai | publisher = Magenta Foundation |year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-9739739-1-4

Miscellaneous

* "Count Zero" shortened and bowdlerised [cite web |url= http://news.ansible.co.uk/a45.html |title=Shameless Self-Promotion: The Letter Column |work=Ansible 45 |date= February 1986 ] serialization illustrated by J. K. Potter, "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", January, February, March 1986 issues
*"Robert Longo" (1992), "ArtRandom" No. 71, ISBN 4-7636-8531-7. OCLC|25843406
* "Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)" (1992)—an artist's book. OCLC|79137074
*Lyrics, vocals. "Technodon", Yellow Magic Orchestra. (1993)cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/release/432896 |title=Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodon |accessdate=2008-01-10 |work=Discogs ]
*Lyrics. "Dog Star Girl", "Debravation". Deborah Harry. (1993)cite news |first=Degen |last=Pener |title= EGOS & IDS; Deborah Harry Is Low-Key -- And Unblond |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DC1239F931A1575BC0A965958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/H/Harry,%20Debbie |work=The New York Times |date=1993-08-22 |accessdate=2007-11-07 ]
*" [http://www.well.com/gopher/Publications/authors/Sterling/Sterling_and_Gibson_at_the_Academy Speeches on Networking and the Future] ", joint address with Bruce Sterling to the United States National Academy of Sciences Convocation on Technology and Education on May 10, 1993.
* Narration of "Neuromancer" for Time Warner Audio Books on 4 audio cassettes (1994)
*cite book | title = Johnny Mnemonic: the Screenplay and the Story | publisher = Ace Books | location = New York | isbn = 0-441-00234-X (1995)
* " [http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_05_01_archive.asp#200322370 Up the Line] ", address to the Directors Guild of America's Digital Day, Los Angeles, May 17, 2003.

References

External links

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* [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/williamgibson.html Project Cyberpunk's biography and links]
* [http://library.loyno.edu/LI/handouts/wgibson.htm Resources on William Gibson] from the Monroe Library, Loyola University
* [http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/ William Gibson Aleph] An extensive fan site