Authors Archive

Who the heck is W.T. Quick and why haven’t I heard of him before?

Just started reading “Dreams of Flesh and Sand” because it was recommended as being a must read for cyberpunk lovers… Well I concur… written in 1988 – 4 years after Neuromancer – it still has some originality to it and I think it adds a dimension to the concept of the matrix.. I get the [&hellip

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What I am Reading: WWW: Wake

In my never ending quest to find new books in the Cyberpunk Genre I have stumbled upon the book WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer. I have not read anything from this offer before so I will let you know what I think. Interestingly there seems to be a string of books that are in [&hellip

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Obituary: JG Ballard, the original cyberpunk

I know I have read something by Ballard – though I can’t remember what.. I will need to check out some of his books – he passed this week from prostrate cancer

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William Gibson and Martha Wainwright

Don’t know how I missed this last June, but Barnes and Noble does a series of author/musician reading/playing events and featured Gibson and Wainwright. 71 minutes long and haven’t checked it all out yet, but … facinating to be sure!

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Back from the Dead!

I love how dedicated Gibson fans are. Have seen this site in the past, but it bubbled up again as the 16th anniversary of Agrippa came to pass. Seems they found an ol’ floppy of the self-destructing poem and where able to rejigger it and run it again. And they took a movie of it [&hellip

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an Anathem… Neal Stephenson

Haven’t had the opportunity to post in a while but I hope to do so more regulary as things in Real Life calm down. Wanted to give some quick insight into Neal Stephenson’s new book Anathem which I have been reading since it came out in September. Neal Stephenson is one my favorite authors but [&hellip

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This Is Just Wrong. And I Must Have Them!

But I’ve never looked good in the classic sneaker, but c’mon,  a Buzz Rickson’s William Gibson sneaker?!?!?!

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Stephenson In LA Times

Interview with fountain-pen wielding writer extraordinare, Neil Stephenson. Still haven’t read Snow Crash, keep starting and stopping that one — it’s some kind of extreme Gibson loyalty that if were, forefend, to enjoy another big cyberpunkist, I’d be dissin William. Hmm. Not like I don’t read Sterling and uh, a bunch of others. Oh well, [&hellip

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Gibson Q&A

Just found this in his blog, William Gibson answering questions on a Barnes and Noble website

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Charles Stross

A quick interview with Charles Stross in the Guardian yesterday. A pretty good take-way: “It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings,” he says. “Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.&#

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