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 series of short stories in science-fiction magazines in t...

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 gathered around the globe. Inventing this fictional settin...

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 them, I'd go to sleep," he told the Missouri Review, as...

Q. Our company does hard chromium plating. Quite often, we're faced with the problem of burned chromium deposits. What are some of the causes of chrome burn? How can I eliminate this problem? F. C. A. There are many different causes of...

Chromium compounds have gained wide acceptance as additions or as the principal ingredient in high temperature refractory materials. About 15% of the U.S. and total world chromite consumption is from the refractories industry. The first recorded refractory usage of chromite was in...