Book description
Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the
most influential science fiction writer of our time.
Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the
most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were
first published in the 1980s, Gibson's vision has become a touchstone -
his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined
to be current well in to the future.
Lowlife characters, ghosts and hallucinations haunt the malls and
plazas of an intensely realized holographic world, a name-brand society,
with cloned Ninja bodyguards, retro fashions, stunning ideas.
Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru, prophet and voice of
the new cybernetic world order and virtual reality. 'A fistful of
fast, challenging, hot-wired short stories'
New Musical Express
'Furiously inventive, brilliantly written, the cutting edge of sf'
Guardian
'Some subversives are still at work proving that SF can pack its
strongest blows into its shortest works… He's at his best dealing with
the victims of the new, the people burnt out by drugs, computers, huge
corporations or the strangeness of space'
Fiction Magazine
'At once a lament and a critique, these stories show the way SF is
being rewired. Gibson, his finger jitteringly on the fast-forward
button, shows the direction in which our literature might be headed'
The Times William Gibson was born in 1948. He was raised and educated
in 'southern Lovecraftian' Virginia, USA, but moved to Canada soon after
leaving school. He now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is
married and has two children.
