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Virtual Light by William Gibson.
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Creator of the concept "Cyberspace," science-fiction author William Gibson developed a new fictional landscape for his edgy work--a hallucinatory three-dimensional region built from computer data gath...
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When science fiction author William Gibson wrote his first two novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero, on a manual typewriter, he knew almost nothing about computers. "When people started talking about th...
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No other Canadian speculative fiction writer, and possibly no other Canadian writer of fiction, has had as great an impact on late-twentieth-century culture as has William Gibson. Beginning with a ser...
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In the following review of Virtual Light, Lanchester asserts that Gibson's strengths as a writer are his prose style and his ability to imagine and create a fantastic world in inventive detail....
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In the following review of Virtual Light, Tuten comments that the plot is overly contrived and at times incomprehensible, the characters are undeveloped and lack depth, and that the novel as a whole &...
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In the following review of Virtual Light, Olsen lauds Gibson's dark humor, detailed imagery, narrative voice, and imaginativeness.
William Gibson stands at the center of the cultural whirlwind ...
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In the following review, Murray contends that Gibson's Idoru poses the questions: “What is reality? And who is human?”
Once you've changed the world with a mere paperback-o...
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In the following review, Clute asserts that Idoru is beautifully written with striking detail and dense with insightful, imaginative metaphors.
For hundreds of pages, it seems he can do no wrong with ...
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In the following essay, Farnell explores the recurrent themes of place, space, form, and architecture within the context of posthuman topologies in Virtual Light and Idoru.
What would happen in the fu...
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In the following review, Ryan observes that Gibson's Virtual Light offers “an urban panorama that is both spectacular and bleak.”
William Gibson is our Jules Verne. Since the earl...
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In the following interview, Killheffer provides an overview of Gibson's life and career, focusing on the publication of Virtual Light.
The weary resignation that William Gibson sometimes feels ...
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William Gibson
William (Ford) Gibson
Critical Review by John Lanchester
