Sprawl Series Complete 4 Books Collection Set by William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive & Burning Chrome)

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Edwards, Gavin (June 1992). "Cyber Lit". Details (134). Archived from the original on September 24, 2008 . Retrieved September 29, 2008. a b Dueben, Alex (October 2, 2007). "An Interview With William Gibson The Father of Cyberpunk". California Literary Review. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007 . Retrieved October 4, 2007. Gibson wrote the following in the "Author's Afterword" of Mona Lisa Overdrive, dated July 16, 1992. Gibson, William; Bruce Sterling (1986). "Introduction". Burning Chrome. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-053982-5. OCLC 51342671. a b c d Walker, Martin (September 3, 1996). "Blade Runner on electro-steroids". Mail & Guardian Online. M&G Media. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 . Retrieved November 11, 2007.

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The Cyberspace Matrix, a synergistically linked computer network of databases that encompasses all information on Earth, has become home to sentient beings. But most of humanity remains unaware. Leonard, Andrew (September 14, 1998). "Is cyberpunk still breathing?". Salon.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 . Retrieved November 6, 2007. Gibson, William (2003-09-04). "Neuromancer: The Timeline" . http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_09_01_archive.asp#1062520986072822474 . Retrieved 2007-11-26. Winning, Josh (20 May 2011). "Vincenzo Natali’s Neuromancer to film in early 2012". Total Film . http://www.totalfilm.com/news/vincenzo-natali-s-neuromancer-to-film-in-early-2012 . Retrieved 21 May 2011. "With the film rights also bought, filming is expected to commence early 2012, with locations including Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London. Pre-visual effects work has already begun." Burning Chrome (1986, preface by Bruce Sterling), collects Gibson's early short fiction, listed by original publication date:Gibson's vision, generated by the monopolising appearance of the terminal image and presented in his creation of the cyberspace matrix, came to him when he saw teenagers playing in video arcades. The physical intensity of their postures, and the realistic interpretation of the terminal spaces projected by these games– as if there were a real space behind the screen – made apparent the manipulation of the real by its own representation. [161] Neuromancer. Wintermute's sibling AI, physically located in Rio de Janeiro. Neuromancer's most notable feature in the story is its ability to copy minds and run them as RAM (not ROM like the Flatline construct), allowing the stored personalities to grow and develop. Unlike Wintermute, Neuromancer has no desire to merge with its sibling AI—Neuromancer already has its own stable personality, and believes such a fusion will destroy that identity. Gibson defines Neuromancer as a portmanteau of the words Neuro, Romancer and Necromancer, "Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead." [8] For Lance Olsen "Gibson becomes the new romancer behind Neuromancer, revitalizing the science fiction novel, the quest story, the myth of the hero, the mystery, the hard-boiled detective novel, the epic, the thriller, and the tales of the cowboy and romantic artist, among others. He represents old stories in a revealing revamped intertexual [sic] pastiche." [9] Straylight Run". MTV.com. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007 . Retrieved September 9, 2007. Watch William Gibson read from his brand new science fiction novel". io9. April 29, 2013. Archived from the original on October 22, 2015 . Retrieved April 8, 2014. a b Gibson, William (March 2008). "Interview de William Gibson VO". ActuSF (transcription). Interviewed by Eric Holstein; Raoul Abdaloff. Paris. Archived from the original on April 5, 2008 . Retrieved April 6, 2008.

a b Gibson, William (November 12, 2008). "Sci-fi special: William Gibson". New Scientist. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008 . Retrieved November 17, 2008. The Sprawl trilogy was followed by the 1990 novel The Difference Engine, an alternative history novel Gibson wrote in collaboration with Bruce Sterling. Set in a technologically advanced Victorian era Britain, the novel was a departure from the authors' cyberpunk roots. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1991 and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1992, and its success drew attention to the nascent steampunk literary genre of which it remains the best-known work. [48] [49] Linda Lee. A drug addict and resident of Chiba City, she is the former girlfriend of Case, and instigates the initial series of events in the story with a lie about his employer's intention to kill him. Her death in Chiba City and later pseudo-resurrection by Neuromancer serves to elicit emotional depth in Case as he mourns her death and struggles with the guilt he feels at rejecting her love and abandoning her both in Chiba City and the simulated reality generated by Neuromancer.Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the third series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to exclusively feature debut novels. Given a year to complete the work, [6] Gibson undertook the actual writing out of "blind animal terror" at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was "four or five years away from". [4] After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner (1982) which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he "figured [ Neuromancer] was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I’d copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film." [7] He re-wrote the first two-thirds of the book twelve times, feared losing the reader's attention and was convinced that he would be "permanently shamed" following its publication; yet what resulted was seen as a major imaginative leap forward for a first-time novelist. [4] He added the final sentence of the novel, "He never saw Molly again", at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero (1986), a character-focused work set in the Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor. [8] Summary [ ]