William Gibson Livres

C'est un monde crépitant et précipité, ivre et bariolé. Saturé de drogues synthétiques, d'informations truquées, de rebuts technologiques. Là-bas, les adolescents se font greffer des yeux artificiels, des crocs de doberman. On y trafique tout : secrets militaires et tranches de silicium, hallucinations et gènes mutants, espoir et oubli... Vivre fort, vivre vite, sous le regard froid des multinationales qui orchestrent le moindre soubresaut de ce grand bazar hystérique et rutilant. Cinq nouvelles signées William Gibson, le chaman cyberpunk. Vision électrique d'un futur enfiévré, immergé dans les murmures bruissants de la technologie, comme un constant bruit de fond subliminal... Ce livre contient 5 nouvelles extraites de Gravé sur chrome : - Johnny Mnemonic (Johnny Mnemonic, 1981) - Fragments de rose en hologramme (Fragments of a Hologram Rose, 1977) - Hinterland (Hinterlands, 1981) - Hôtel New Rose (New Rose Hotel, 1981) - Le marché d'hiver (The Winter Market, 1986)

Une nouvelle macroforme est apparue dans la Conurb : l'aleph. Un gigantesque empilement de biopuces capables de reconstituer tous les savoirs, toutes les données de l'univers. Un fantastique instrument de pouvoir ! Tous les pirates de Cyberspace sont à sa recherche. Mais qui le détient réellement ? Bobby, un génie du logiciel ? Dame 3Jane, l'héritière clonée de l'empire Tessier-Ashpool ? Ou Angie, vedette de cinéma, fille du savant Mitchell, le célèbre créateur des biopuces ? L'enjeu des de taille ! Ils l'ignorent encore mais celui qui, au risque de sa vie, saura se rendre maître de l'aleph possédera les clés d'un monde nouveau, un monde au-delà de l'humanité...

This is not a primer to Shakespeare: not all the plays are discussed in any detail. For the theater department, however, it should be considered indispensable

Best-known for his seminal sf novel NEUROMANCER, William Gibson is also a master of short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, BURNING CHROME collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, co-Cyberpunk and editor of the seminal anthology MIRRORSHADES. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best. Contains 'Johnny Mnemonic' (filmed starring Keanu Reeves) and title story 'Burning Chrome' - both nominated for the Nebula Award - as well as the Hugo-and-Nebula-nominated stories 'Dogfight' and 'The Winter Market'.

After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person behind the avatar.

Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic. Although All Tomorrow's Parties includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book.--Craig E. Engler

Chevette rides as a courier, banging her paper laminate-framed bike through the streets of a future 'Frisco - she lives for it. On an impulse, she's risked everything; stolen a pair of sunglasses from some jerk. No ordinary shades, either: loaded with super-sensitive data, they could decide the destiny of the entire city. Rydell is working for Mr Warbaby, who has been hired to recover the glasses. But Rydell is none too sure that he likes his new employment opportunity; with SFPD Homicide involved, an abandoned bridge populated by freaks and misfits, and some weirdness involving the Republic of Desire and a 'Death Star', it's turning out to be a very strange and dangerous scene indeed ...William Gibson, author of the classic Neuromancer and creator of cyberpunk, here turns his hyper-acute imagination on the near future - to supercharged, nerve-shredding effect.

Provides the screenplay for the film about a smuggler of the future who uses a computer chip implanted in his brain to transfer valuable information

While an ex-singer-turned-journalist unsuccessfully struggles to avoid notice by twisted marketing genius Hubertus Bigend, a talented Russian linguist emerges from rehabilitation amid Bigend's discovery of an anonymous rival on the global market.