William Gibson is the author of ten books, including, most recently, the New York Times-bestselling trilogy Zero History, Spook Country and Pattern Recognition. Gibson’s 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer, was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes—the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Gibson is credited with coining the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome,” and with popularizing the concept of the Internet while it was still largely unknown. He is also a co-author of the novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.
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William Gibson at The New York Public Library
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The Incomparable #5: Shakespeare is a Hack!
Our Book Club reconvenes, to discuss Nick Harkaway, Cherie Priest, William Gibson, favorite prose stylists (Shakespeare? Please!), and multiple Shatners. Also in this episode, we introduce listeners to two new inanimate-yet-Incomparable characters: the Spoiler Horn and its good friend, the All-Clear Bell.
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Why William Gibson Distrusts Aging Futurists’ Nostalgia | Underwire | Wired.com
Few things seem more pathetic than a science fiction writer who pines for the "good old days." Just a whiff of that sort of crippling nostalgia sets of
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Douglas Coupland & William Gibson - Key West Literary Seminar Audio Archives
Douglas Coupland and William Gibson discuss culture, technology, and the craft of writing. Communications technologies are a global memory prosthesis, says Gibson, and aspire to an experience in which distinctions between the "virtual" and the "real" are dissolved. We are already the borg, Gibson says.
http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/douglas-coupland-william-gibson/
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Gibson & Leary Audio (MONDO 2000 History Project) | ACCELER8OR
The best in Transhumanist/Singulartarian news
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/12/gibson-leary-audio-mondo-2000-history-project/
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Classic LNL: Tins without labels - Late Night Live - 23 September 2011
Huffduffed on the understanding the label said;
Originally broadcast 24 November 2005. A wide ranging discussion with the British journalist and author Francis Wheen. Wheen’s book is subtitled, ‘A Short History of Modern Delusions’, in which he challenges the rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
However label had fallen off before being put back on the shelf and infact contents were a step back in time to 1994 to the fall of John Major from the British prime ministership, an interview with two american experts, Geoff Chester and David Lytel, about this new thing called the information super highway and science fiction author and inventor of that other 90’s bussword cyberspace, William Gibson.
Like a surprise tin from Arkrights store, the NQR episode of Late Night Live.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2011/3322868.htm
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William Gibson Interview from 1994 - Nerdcore
Originally broadcast on 31 March 1994. William Gibson, dubbed the prophet of cyberpunk, gives his take on the future of cyberspace, and his predictions are incredibly accurate.
http://www.crackajack.de/2011/09/16/william-gibson-interview-from-1994/
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Who owns the Story of the Future?
Will the future be better or worse? And does the story we are telling ourselves help or hinder us? Can we make the right choices, and deal with the grand challenges ahead or will our ambitions and lack of political will get in the way. Jon Turney (The Rough Guide to the Future) chairs a panel including technology and SF writer Cory Doctorow and Mark Stevenson
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BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : William Gibson
This week the castaway on Desert Island Discs is William Gibson. Long before the existence of the Internet, he wrote about ‘cyberspace’, a boundless world reached only through computers. External space travel, to the Moon and Mars, had become old hat. By creating internal space, he breathed new life into science fiction. In conversation with Sue Lawley, he talks about his life and work and chooses eight records to take to the mythical island.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/3ade8915#p00941v7
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William Gibson - No Maps For These Territories (audio from documentary) Part1/2
Audio taken form the documentary No Maps for These Territories - Part1
Taken from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories
No Maps for These Territories is an independent documentary film made by Mark Neale focusing on the speculative fiction author William Gibson.[1] It features appearances by Jack Womack, Bruce Sterling, Bono, and The Edge and was released by Docurama. The film had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival in October 2000.
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