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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web.
Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre.
Although much of Gibson's reputation has remained associated with Neuromancer, his work has continued to evolve. After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre—steampunk—with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling. In the 1990s, he composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which focused on sociological observations of near-future urban environments and late capitalism. His most recent novels—Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007) and Zero History (2010)—are set in a contemporary world and have put his work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time.
Gibson is one of the best-known North American science fiction writers, fęted by The Guardian in 1999 as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades". Gibson has written more than twenty short stories and ten critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), and has contributed articles to several major publications and collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, design, academia, cyberculture, and technology.
William Ford Gibson was born in the coastal city of Conway, South Carolina, and spent most of his childhood in Wytheville, Virginia, a small town in the Appalachians where his parents had been born and raised. His family moved frequently during Gibson's youth owing to his father's position as manager of a large construction company. In Norfolk, Virginia, Gibson attended Pines Elementary School, where the teachers' lack of encouragement for him to read was a cause of dismay for his parents. While Gibson was still a young child, a little over a year into his stay at Pines Elementary, his father choked to death in a restaurant while on a business trip. His mother, unable to tell William the bad news, had someone else inform him of the death. Tom Maddox has commented that Gibson "grew up in an America as disturbing and surreal as anything J. G. Ballard ever dreamed".
A few days after the death, Gibson's mother returned them from their home in Norfolk to Wytheville. Gibson later described Wytheville as "a place where modernity had arrived to some extent but was deeply distrusted" and credits the beginnings of his relationship with science fiction, his "native literary culture", with the subsequent feeling of abrupt exile. At the age of 12, Gibson "wanted nothing more than to be a science fiction writer". He spent a few unproductive years at basketball-obsessed George Wythe High School, a time spent largely in his room listening to records and reading books. At 13, unbeknownst to his mother, he purchased an anthology of Beat writing, thereby gaining exposure to the writings of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs; the lattermost had a particularly pronounced effect, greatly altering Gibson's notions of the possibilities of science fiction literature.
A shy, ungainly teenager, Gibson grew up in a monoculture he found "highly problematic", consciously rejected religion and took refuge in reading science fiction as well as writers such as Burroughs and Henry Miller. Becoming frustrated with his poor academic performance, Gibson's mother threatened to send him to a boarding school; to her surprise, he reacted enthusiastically. Unable to afford his preferred choice of Southern California, his then "chronically anxious and depressive" mother, who had remained in Wytheville since the death of her husband, sent him to Southern Arizona School for Boys in Tucson, Arizona. He resented the structure of the private boarding school, but was in retrospect grateful for its forcing him to engage socially. He took the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) exams, scoring five out of 150 in mathematics and 148 out of 150 in the written section, to the consternation of his teachers.
After considering pursuing a master's degree on the topic of hard science fiction novels as fascist literature, Gibson discontinued writing in the year that followed graduation and, as one critic put it, expanded his collection of punk records. During this period he worked at various jobs, including a three-year stint as teaching assistant on a film history course at his alma mater. Impatient at much of what he saw at a science fiction convention in Vancouver in 1980 or 1981, Gibson found a kindred spirit in fellow panelist, punk musician and author John Shirley. The two became immediate and lifelong friends. Shirley persuaded Gibson to sell his early short stories and to take writing seriously.
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Sprawl Trilogy
William Gibson - Neuromancer (read by Arthur Addison)
William Gibson - Count Zero (read by James DeLotel)
William Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive (read by James DeLotel)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/99343637e9410b471573996a6f3b1f30/Neuromancer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dd5e9035533fcc60e5b6577d31555b7b/Count_Zero.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d2df216fc1ce2dae8fe4f94f6f8f3ecf/Mona_Lisa_Overdrive.rar.html |
Bridge Trilogy
William Gibson - Virtual Light (read by Frank Muller)
William Gibson - Idoru (read by Christopher Hurt)
William Gibson - All Tomorrow's Parties (read by Robert O'keefe)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/85b796b30a9d25df17e63bf1286a9dff/Virtual_Light.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1f2b93874d58e3004df5770481d55e75/Idoru.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/37a687a7c109ec31fd045791992cf813/All_Tomorrows_Parties.rar.html |
Blue Ant Trilogy
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition (read by Shelly Frasier)
William Gibson - Spook Country (read by Robertson Dean)
William Gibson - Zero History (read by Robertson Dean)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/d1364d8307eca97ff292d750a55cc663/Pattern_Recognition.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/836dfb4a3e66b1ecf07be46a2e97929b/Spook_Country.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a475a278780224927a31283ca175f326/Zero_History.rar.html |
Short Stories
William Gibson - Johnny Mnemonic (read by Jack Noseworthy)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/e5fefcb8e3ff22096145f1a357ba8b5f/Johnny_Mnemonic.rar.html |
Others
William Gibson - The Difference Engine (read by James DeLotel)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/9133dbcdb3af3a1c3ba8337046d9b0c0/The_Difference_Engine.rar.html |
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