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Neuromancer»rank: 16415par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:When Neuromancer, a first novel by a young American transplanted to Vancouver, appeared in 1984, it was immediately recognized as the first shot in a science fiction revolution. lnnovative in both style and substance, Gibson's tale of a hired-gun hacker caught the spirit of the coming networked world and laid the groundwork for everything from Neal Stephenson to The Matrix. A later novel like Pattern Recognition may surpass it in purely literary terms, but never in influence; Neuromancer may, in fact, ... |
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Spook Country»rank: 4477par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:When Neuromancer, a first novel by a young American transplanted to Vancouver, appeared in 1984, it was immediately recognized as the first shot in a science fiction revolution. lnnovative in both style and substance, Gibson's tale of a hired-gun hacker caught the spirit of the coming networked world and laid the groundwork for everything from Neal Stephenson to The Matrix. A later novel like Pattern Recognition may surpass it in purely literary terms, but never in influence; Neuromancer may, in fact, ... |
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Count Zero»rank: 4582par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes ... |
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Neuromancer»rank: 32090par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:When Neuromancer, a first novel by a young American transplanted to Vancouver, appeared in 1984, it was immediately recognized as the first shot in a science fiction revolution. lnnovative in both style and substance, Gibson's tale of a hired-gun hacker caught the spirit of the coming networked world and laid the groundwork for everything from Neal Stephenson to The Matrix. A later novel like Pattern Recognition may surpass it in purely literary terms, but never in influence; Neuromancer may, in fact, ... |
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Neuromancer 20 Anniversary Edition»rank: 28099par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential:When Neuromancer, a first novel by a young American transplanted to Vancouver, appeared in 1984, it was immediately recognized as the first shot in a science fiction revolution. lnnovative in both style and substance, Gibson's tale of a hired-gun hacker caught the spirit of the coming networked world and laid the groundwork for everything from Neal Stephenson to The Matrix. A later novel like Pattern Recognition may surpass it in purely literary terms, but never in influence; Neuromancer may, in fact, ... |
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Pattern Recognition»rank: 13844par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:With Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, the man who introduced cyberpunk to the world, gives us his first novel set in the present. But as Gibson's imagination makes clear, our corporation-dominated, technologically advanced reality doesn't need much tweaking to take on the aura of science fiction. lf there's a fantastical element to this, the author's eighth book, it's in protagonist Cayce Pollard's special talent. Here, Gibson takes some of No Logo author Naomi Klein's ideas about branding to a logical extreme: Pollard has an ... |
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Labyrinths»rank: 49128par: Jorge Borges
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web. lnstead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in Name of the Rose). Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost ... |
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The Difference Engine»rank: 56597par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the lndustrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. |
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Mona Lisa Overdrive»rank: 53238par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lnto the cyber-hip world of William Gibson comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled...or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the ... |
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Count zero»rank: 81410par: William Gibson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes ... |