William Gibson Collection - William Gibson
Category: Classic
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Tags: Classic, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Adults
William Gibson the Father of Cyberpunk the author who minted the term Cyberspace and the Matrix concept, among hes most known works is the short story Jhonny Mnemonic that was the inspiration for the film with the same name and the film series Matrix (with the novell Neuromancer). By coinsidence?? Both films had Keanu Reeves as lead star., What Cyberpunk really is have not been defined, like Sci-Fi, so really Cyberpunk is an undefined sub genre of the undefined Sci-Fi genre. Well you sort of recognise it when you see it Among the best definitions I have seen is: noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a combination of lowlife and high tech", When you read that you think Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and Philip K. Dicks Blade Runner was the inspiration for Gibsons Neuromancer. But at the time Blade Runner was not Cyberpunk out of the reason the genre did not exist at the time., I have only inc
