Attention Conversation Notice: SPOILERS! Big giant ones. Also, not a review – though it may contain traces of one. The author reserves the right to wax lyrical, reminisce, draw inappropriate comparisons between his own life and that of Gibson’s protagonists and slowly wander back to the subject at hand. Highly dependant on the reader having […]
Read more "Reflections on Zero History"(Caching this important piece here for posterity..) Googles Earth By WILLIAM GIBSON I actually think most people dont want Google to answer their questions, said the search giants chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. Do we really desire Google […]
Read more "Gibson on Google"Being an irregular round-up post featuring quotes from the awesome recent writings from the Top Secret: TechGonzo Official List of Allies. The Sarah Connor Chronicles: “Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point” by Wolven The beauty of this show is in the intricate, subtle interplay of the characters–human and cyborg/machine–and how what they learn, […]
Read more "Awesome shit my friends said"from tyeebooks.ca William Gibson Hates Futurists The night they started to broadcast television in New York, New York ceased to be what it had been before. Because everyone stayed home to watch television. … Virtual reality was one of our most recent experiences of a future that didn’t happen. The one before that would have […]
Read more "..William Gibson Hates Futurists.."Man, i love William Gibson’s writing. I can even deal with the 4 -5 year wait for a new one we get these days. And with Spook Country he’s as on the money as ever. It’s always the first third I love the most. Wherein he sets up his universe of characters, technologies, corporations etc. […]
Read more "secrets are cool – a review of Spook Country"I linked to Gibson’s interview on Trashotron earlier… This is my fave quote – where he talks about living in a SF world. He elaborates on this in his recent interview with the BoingBoing crew. All this of course is in support of his new novel, Spook Country. Which is due to arrive on my […]
Read more "William Gibson – we're living in a 1980's SF novel"from College Crier: … T. Virgil Parker: Your early Sci-Fi commented obliquely on contemporary issues, but it gave you a very unique set of strategies that you’re using to explicate the present. William Gibson: Well, I don’t actually think they’re unique because I acquired them through the course of working in the genre of science-fiction, […]
Read more "..William Gibson: Sci-Fi Icon Becomes Prophet of the Present.."from JoBlo.com Neuromancer comes After more than two decades of influencing countless modern sci-fi stories and concepts in film, TV, videogames, books and comics, an adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel NEUROMANCER is finally heading to theaters. Producer Peter Hoffman will essentially make the movie as a $70 million indie. Director Joseph Kahn, whose […]
Read more "…Neuromancer comes…"Warren Ellis recently said is his post Flying Frogs And Crashed Rocketships
I share a conviction with Steven Shaviro, whose most recent book was CONNECTED, that we live in a science fictional world. Not the one everyone expected, of course no jetpacks. But good science fiction, challenging science fiction, is never about the future we expect. Sf has never been about predicting the future. Its been about laying out a roadmap of possibilities, one dark street at a time, and applying that direction to the present condition…
Read more "SF in a science fictional world"A promising possible adaptation of the William Gibson novel.
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 