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Mona Lisa Overdrive

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307831194

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William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Agave Könyvek
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789634198987

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A szellem az apja búcsúajándéka volt, amit egy feketébe öltözött titkár adott át a Narita egyik utasvárójában. Mona egy fiatal lány sötét múlttal és kilátástalan jövővel. Nem is meglepő – legfeljebb váratlan –, hogy a stricije egyszer csak eladja egy plasztikai sebésznek, aki egyik napról a másikra átszabja őt valaki teljesen mássá. Angie Mitchell egy híres hollywoodi Sense/Net sztár különleges képességgel. Bár sokan szeretnék édes tudatlanságban tartani, Angie hamarosan mégis rájön, hogy kicsoda valójában, és miért nincs szüksége deckre, hogy rácsatlakozzon a cybertérre. Eközben egy rejtélyes entitás emberrablást szervez a mátrixban, és a terve megvalósításához szüksége van Monára, Angie-re és az egész emberiségre. Az ármány mögött pedig lesben áll a Jakuza, a japán alvilág rettegett szervezete, akinek vezetői könyörtelenül manipulálnak bárkit és bármit céljuk elérésében. A Sprawl-trilógia befejező kötete egyszerre érzéki és kíméletlen hangulatú, kábulatba ejtő és kijózanító utazás William Gibson felejthetetlen világába. Az olvasó új fordításban tartja a kezében a könyvet.

Count Zero

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101146477

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William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human....

Virtual Light

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307831187

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NEW YORK TIMES bestseller • 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich—or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash. . . . Praise for Virtual Light “Both exhilarating and terrifying . . . Although considered the master of 'cyberpunk' science fiction, William Gibson is also one fine suspense writer.”—People “A stunner . . . A terrifically stylish burst of kick-butt imagination.”—Entertainment Weekly “Convincing . . . frightening . . . Virtual Light is written with a sense of craft, a sense of humor and a sense of the ultimate seriousness of the problems it explores.”—Chicago Tribune “In the emerging pop culture of the information age, Gibson is the brightest star.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune

A Planet for Rent

Author : Yoss
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632060082

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The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice. Praise for Yoss “One of the most prestigious science fiction authors of the island.” —On Cuba Magazine "A gifted and daring writer." —David Iaconangelo "José Miguel Sánchez [Yoss] is Cuba’s most decorated science fiction author, who has cultivated the most prestige for this genre in the mainstream, and the only person of all the Island’s residents who lives by his pen.” —Cuenta Regresiva Born José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, Yoss assumed his pen name in 1988, when he won the Premio David Award in the science fiction category for Timshel. Together with his peculiar pseudonym, the author's aesthetic of an impentinent rocker has allowed him to stand out amongst his fellow Cuban writers. Earning a degree in Biology in 1991, he went on to graduate from the first ever course on Narrative Techniques at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center of Literary Training, in the year 1999. Today, Yoss writes both realistic and science fiction works. Alongside these novels, the author produces essays, Praise for, and compilations, and actively promotes the Cuban science fiction literary workshops, Espiral and Espacio Abierto. When he isn’t translating, David Frye teaches Latin American culture and society at the University of Michigan. Translations include First New Chronicle and Good Government by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Peru, 1615); The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi (Mexico, 1816), for which he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America by Ángel Rama (Uruguay, 1982), and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems.

All Tomorrow's Parties

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425190447

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Living a down-and-out existence in Tokyo, Colin Laney is determined to make his way back to the United States and to San Francisco, where, thanks to his special sensitivities about people and events, he believes a pivotal moment in human history will take place sometime in the future.

William Gibson

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252095085

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The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-future worlds of ubiquitous and intrusive computer technology and cybernetics. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the award-winning author of the seminal novel Neuromancer (and the other books in the Sprawl trilogy, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive), as well as other acclaimed novels including recent bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. Renowned scholar Gary Westfahl draws upon extensive research to provide a compelling account of Gibson's writing career and his lasting influence in the science fiction world. Delving into numerous science fiction fanzines that the young Gibson contributed to and edited, Westfahl delivers new information about his childhood and adolescence. He describes for the first time more than eighty virtually unknown Gibson publications from his early years, including articles, reviews, poems, cartoons, letters, and a collaborative story. The book also documents the poems, articles, and introductions that Gibson has written for various books, and its discussions are enriched by illuminating comments from various print and online interviews. The works that made Gibson famous are also featured, as Westfahl performs extended analyses of Gibson's ten novels and nineteen short stories. Lastly, the book presents a new interview with Gibson in which the author discusses his correspondence with author Fritz Leiber, his relationship with the late scholar Susan Wood, his attitudes toward critics, his overall impact on the field of science fiction, and his recently completed screenplay and forthcoming novel.

Pattern Recognition

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141904467

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'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times

Agency

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101986950

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency—a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it. *The Boston Globe

Distrust That Particular Flavor

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101559413

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A collection of New York Times bestselling author William Gibson’s articles and essays about contemporary culture—a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture... Though best known for his fiction, William Gibson is as much in demand for his cutting-edge observations on the world we live in now. Originally printed in publications as varied as Wired, the New York Times, and the Observer, these articles and essays cover thirty years of thoughtful, observant life, and are reported in the wry, humane voice that lovers of Gibson have come to crave. “Gibson pulls off a dazzling trick. Instead of predicting the future, he finds the future all around him, mashed up with the past, and reveals our own domain to us.”—The New York Times Book Review

Anatomy of Wonder

Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106017538494

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This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.

MONA LISA OVERDRIVE

Author : WILLIAM GIBSON,CARLOS IRINEU
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8576570513

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No futuro, existe a matrix. Uma espécie de alucinação coletiva digital, na qual a humanidade se conecta para, virtualmente, saber de tudo sobre tudo. Uma das sensações do mundo virtual são os stims, narrativas sensoriais nas quais o espectador se coloca no lugar dos personagens. Angie Mitchell é uma das maiores estrelas dos stims. Mas ela também possui uma capacidade única - pode conectar-se ao ciberespaço sem o auxílio de qualquer equipamento. Kumiko teve que ir embora do Japão para não se envolver na guerra em que seu pai e todos os Yakuza estão metidos. Mona sonha e espera por uma chance. Adolescente, prostituta e sem perspectivas, tudo muda para ela quando lhe oferecem uma grande oportunidade. O que todas elas têm a perder?

Burning Chrome

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062273017

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“A breath of fresh air . . . the vision is deeply imagined, very complete and controlled . . . Gibson is truly brilliant.”—Washington Times magazine From a true master of science fiction comes a collection of short stories that show how, no matter the length, Gibson is one of the greatest writers working today. Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick, and with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson’s characters and intensely realized worlds at their absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of “Johnny Mnemonic” to the street-tech melancholy of “Burning Chrome.”

Idoru

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101158050

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“The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we’re entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru cements that fame.”—The Washington Post Book World 21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature... Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the “signature” an individual creates simply by going about the business of living. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful—to certain people. Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. She’s fourteen. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo/Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the idoru—the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo. True or not, the idoru and the powerful interests surrounding her are enough to put all their lives in danger...

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

Author : Tad Williams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780886777630

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Science fiction-roman.