Sprawl Series Complete 4 Books Collection Set by William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive & Burning Chrome)

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Winning, Josh (20 May 2011). "Vincenzo Natali’s Neuromancer to film in early 2012". Total Film . http://www.totalfilm.com/news/vincenzo-natali-s-neuromancer-to-film-in-early-2012 . Retrieved 21 May 2011. "With the film rights also bought, filming is expected to commence early 2012, with locations including Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London. Pre-visual effects work has already begun."

Clute, John. "The Case of the World". Excessive Candour. SciFi.com. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 . Retrieved October 14, 2007.Orlowski, Andrew (April 25, 2003). "William Gibson 'gives up blogging' ". Music and Media. The Register. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007 . Retrieved November 3, 2007. A shy, ungainly teenager, Gibson grew up in a monoculture he found "highly problematic", [14] consciously rejected religion and took refuge in reading science fiction as well as writers such as Burroughs and Henry Miller. [13] [17] Becoming frustrated with his poor academic performance, Gibson's mother threatened to send him to a boarding school; to her surprise, he reacted enthusiastically. [10] Unable to afford his preferred choice of Southern California, his then "chronically anxious and depressive" mother, who had remained in Wytheville since the death of her husband, sent him to Southern Arizona School for Boys in Tucson. [7] [8] [13] He resented the structure of the private boarding school but was in retrospect grateful for its forcing him to engage socially. [10] Draft-dodging, exile, and counterculture [ edit ] Gibson at a 2007 reading of Spook Country in Victoria, British Columbia. Since " The Winter Market" (1985), commissioned by Vancouver Magazine with the stipulation that it be set in the city, Gibson actively avoided using his adopted home as a setting until Spook Country. [18] Sutherland, John (August 31, 2007). "Node idea". Guardian Unlimited. London: Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on September 6, 2007 . Retrieved November 11, 2007. Gibson, William (March 31, 1996). "Foreword to City Come a-walkin '". Archived from the original on June 26, 2007 . Retrieved May 1, 2007.

Neuromancer. Wintermute's sibling AI, physically located in Rio de Janeiro. Neuromancer's most notable feature in the story is its ability to copy minds and run them as RAM (not ROM like the Flatline construct), allowing the stored personalities to grow and develop. Unlike Wintermute, Neuromancer has no desire to merge with its sibling AI—Neuromancer already has its own stable personality, and believes such a fusion will destroy that identity. Gibson defines Neuromancer as a portmanteau of the words Neuro, Romancer and Necromancer, "Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead." [8] For Lance Olsen "Gibson becomes the new romancer behind Neuromancer, revitalizing the science fiction novel, the quest story, the myth of the hero, the mystery, the hard-boiled detective novel, the epic, the thriller, and the tales of the cowboy and romantic artist, among others. He represents old stories in a revealing revamped intertexual [sic] pastiche." [9] Gibson, William (2003-09-04). "Neuromancer: The Timeline" . http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2003_09_01_archive.asp#1062520986072822474 . Retrieved 2007-11-26. Conner, Shawn (August 13, 2019). "Join William Gibson and Johnnie Christmas for a special launch of their book Alien 3!". Inside Vancouver. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020 . Retrieved September 6, 2020.The couple married and settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1972, with Gibson looking after their first child while they lived off his wife's teaching salary. During the 1970s, Gibson made a substantial part of his living from scouring Salvation Army thrift stores for underpriced artifacts he would then up-market to specialist dealers. [25] Realizing that it was easier to sustain high college grades, and thus qualify for generous student financial aid, than to work, [16] he enrolled at the University of British Columbia (UBC), earning "a desultory bachelor's degree in English" [7] in 1977. [27] Through studying English literature, he was exposed to a wider range of fiction than he would have read otherwise; something he credits with giving him ideas inaccessible from within the culture of science fiction, including an awareness of postmodernity. [28] It was at UBC that he attended his first course on science fiction, taught by Susan Wood, at the end of which he was encouraged to write his first short story, " Fragments of a Hologram Rose". [9] Early writing and the evolution of cyberpunk [ edit ] a b c d e f Adams, Tim; Emily Stokes; James Flint (August 12, 2007). "Space to think". The Observer. London. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007 . Retrieved October 26, 2007.