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So, they've found James Delmore Shapely. Took them a while longer than Gibson thought, but the good part (I guess) is that the Big Quake is still up there in the future.

I made the mistake of going to the disco in my light-activated exoskeleton... Freak Out!

(Disco Stu meets Lise from William Gibson's great short story "The Winter Market".)

http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gibson0.htm l

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Based on the short story 'Johnny Mnemonic' from the 'Burning Chrome' short story collection, Gibson wrote the screenplay for the movie. It is directed by Robert Longo and starring Keanu Reeves and Dolph Lundgren.

Robert Longo said they intended to make a 'dirty, edgy black-and-white science fiction film' but shifted to big movie because nobody was interested in funding what would have been 'a giant student film'. Gibson himself says Hollywood forces changed the movie from his and Longo's vision, and that the Japanese cut of the movie (in English with Japanese subtitles) is closer to their intent.
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Damn, I saw that movie.

You can always read the script though.

Generally, if you ask around most people seem to agree that the earlier stuff such as Neuromancer is his better work. Personally, I thought that Idoru was more of the same - good writing, but nothing new.

My local bookstore's taking ages to get Pattern Recognition in stock, but apparently William Gibson's back on form. Go try it out - you might like it more than Idoru.

Also, of course, Idoru was the second in a trilogy, and you might have unknowingly had problems following the plot...check this out for more info.

Free Pattern Recognition sample chapter.

William Gibson home page.
A bot modeled on Gibson's take on AI.
The Aleph - all things Gibson.

Free Pattern Recognition sample chapter.

William Gibson home page.
A bot modeled on Gibson's take on AI.
The Aleph - all things Gibson.

That's odd. Gibson co-wrote two episodes of the X-Files, "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter". So he doesn't watch TV, but writes for it. Both episodes involved much of the plot in "CyberSpace", Kill Switch had an AI living in a trailer park that could control an orbiting laser platrorm. I didn't see the other one.

Lame web site about the episodes here.

The Aleph has had chapter 3 for a while now.

Most of the posts I see for fav games are for Mario Bros 99999 & Shooting Guy in 3-D: the Extreme Bloody version.

I remember truly addicting games like Tetris (how many of you had nightmares about this?), Neuromancer for the C64 and Herzog Zwei for Sega Genesis (the best two person wargame EVER on 16-bit)

It just shows that Gibson can write very varied sf. Personally I'm a big Gibson fan, both of the Neuromancer-books, and of the Virtual Light-series.

For more info on Gibson, check out the Gibson Aleph.

Am I the only person disturbed by the fact that Gibson was born in 1948, SFFWorld Another Another etc. ?

Also, there is no mention that William Gibson died.

Either, this is another canadian sci-fi enthusiast, with the same name as the William Gibson that wrote Neuromancer, or, Someone's trying to pull a fast one.