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William Ford Gibson ist ein US-amerikanischer, in Kanada lebender Science-Fiction-Autor. Bekannt wurde er mit seinem 1984 erschienenen Roman Neuromancer, der in jenem Jahr alle gängigen SF-Preise erhielt: Den Philip K. Dick Award, den Nebula Award sowie den Hugo Award.

In diesem Buch prägte er unter anderem den Begriff Cyberspace, der noch immer häufig für elektronische Netze wie das World Wide Web verwendet wird, sowie das Subgenre des Cyberpunk und den Begriff der Matrix, welche durch ein globales Informationsnetzwerk gebildet wird und so den Cyberspace ermöglicht. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. März 1948  •  Andere Namen উইলিয়াম গিবসন
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“The street finds its own uses for things.”

William Gibson Burning Chrome

Burning Chrome (1982)

“The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”

William Gibson

Name of an article http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/gibson_wasteoftime.shtml he wrote for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996)

“Secrets… are the very root of cool.”

William Gibson buch Spook Country

Quelle: Spook Country

“He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.”

William Gibson buch Pattern Recognition

Quelle: Pattern Recognition

“A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void…”

William Gibson buch Neuromancer

Quelle: Neuromancer (1984)
Kontext: A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void… The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there.

“Things aren't different. Things are things.”

William Gibson buch Neuromancer

Quelle: Neuromancer

“Time is money, but also money is money.”

William Gibson buch Pattern Recognition

Quelle: Pattern Recognition

“The present tense made him nervous.”

William Gibson

Quelle: Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer (1984), Chapter 3 (Case)

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts…”

William Gibson buch Neuromancer

Quelle: Neuromancer (1984)
Kontext: Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...

“I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.”

William Gibson

&quot;Since 1948&quot; (6 November 2002) http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/source/source.asp <br class="br">Kontext: I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society&#x27;s flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write.<br>And have been, ever since. <br class="br">Kontext: In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like &quot;career,&quot; I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old&#x27;s interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society&#x27;s flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write.<br>And have been, ever since.

“I'd buy him a drink, but I don't know if I'd loan him any money.”

William Gibson

When asked what he would say about the man who wrote Neuromancer.
No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognize the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.”

William Gibson

A sentence that he worked on for years earlier in his career, which eventually went nowhere. Troubled by inexperience in "actually getting the characters to move," he spent so much time on it that he can still remember every word more than 20 years later.
No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“They sat around accessing media all day and talking about it, and nothing ever seemed to get done.”

William Gibson buch All Tomorrow's Parties

Quelle: All Tomorrow's Parties‎ (2003), Ch. 7 : Sharehouse, p. 33

“The future is not google-able.”

William Gibson

Comments at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, San Francisco, California (5 February 2004)

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