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 essay, Christie examines the elements of both traditional science fiction and postmodern experimental fiction in Gibson's Neuromancer and John Crowley's Engine Summer.
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In the following essay, Stevens presents a thematic analysis of gender, technology, and individual identity in Neuromancer, noting Gibson's complex portrayal of artificial intelligence and sexu...
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In the following essay, de Zwaan comments on the elements of cyberpunk science fiction and postmodern experimentation in Neuromancer, noting the influence of Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, and Jean Baud...
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In the following essay, Concannon discusses the thematic motif of the border and how it relates to self-identity in Neuromancer and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera.
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When C...
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In the following essay, Freccero contrasts the representations of technology-driven societies in Neuromancer and the Alien film series.
A. Technocultures and Postmodernism
In this chapter I would l...
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In the following essay, Punday explores the relationship between cyberspace and narrative form in Neuromancer, arguing that the novel “offers us a way to negotiate the conventional discursive e...
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In the following essay, Myers examines how Gibson utilizes the concept of cyberspace in Neuromancer to create a postmodern narrative setting.
Much of William Gibson's novel Neuromancer is ce...
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In the following essay, Brouillette presents an analysis of the 1984 publication of Neuromancer in terms of the relationship between the corporate publishing industry and the science fiction subcultur...
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In the following essay, Huntington argues that the alienated characters who populate Neuromancer represent a form of resistance to dominant cultural mores.
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The dynamic by which science fiction di...
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In the following essay, Grant discusses the theme of transcendence through technology in Neuromancer.
1. People as Systems
Cyberspace. Simstim. Meat puppets. Prosthetic limbs, cranial sockets, and ...
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In the following essay, Mead asserts that characters in Gibson's trilogy of “Sprawl” novels—Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive—use technology as a mean...
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In the following essay, Csicsery-Ronay posits that Gibson's narrative in Neuromancer addresses the question of how artists can represent the human condition in a world dominated by cybernetic t...
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In the following essay, Cherniavsky examines the representation of gender and reproductive technology in Neuromancer.
Besides, although the creation of life in vitro would certainly be a scientific...
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In the following essay, Voller explores how Neuromancer portrays cyberspace as a realm of sublime transcendence devoid of spiritual implications.
William Gibson's “matrix” work...
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In the following essay, Schroeder offers a critical assessment of the relationship between cybernetics and postmodernism in Neuromancer.
Back in 1983 Time named the computer “Machine of the ...
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In the following essay, Davidson discusses Neuromancer in terms of postmodern theories of simulation and the visual image, particularly comparing the novel's central themes to the works of Jean...
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In the following interview, Gibson discusses the concept of cyberspace, the cyberpunk movement, and the influence of popular culture on his writing.
In 1984 William Gibson's first novel, Neu...
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In the following review of Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative, edited by George Slusser and Tom Shippy, Latham asserts that Neuromancer is the predominant subject of the essays in thi...
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Considering that there are many different levels of realism, I have chosen to focus on Neuromancer by William Gibson and We so Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy. The stories explore the boundaries ...
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Teaching Neuromancer
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SPOOK COUNTRYBy William Gibson Putnam, 371 pages, $25.95
By setting his new novel in the recent past—just as he did in Pattern Recognition (2003)—William Gibson once again suggests that...
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William Gibson
William (Ford) Gibson
Critical Essay by John R. R. Christie
A Comparison of Neuromancer and We So Seldom Look on Love
Has Gibson Lost Ability to Terrify Us?
