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more about #williamgibson dumanue: Even though I love Gibson's writing, the whole concept of this article is weird to me... If you want to write, just sit down and write, fame doesn't ... more » Kurls: So basically, if you write a lot most of it will be crap but eventually you will write something good? Seems to be the best way to learn to write any... more » Chip Overclock: I once heard Spider Robinson say something similar; he threw a magazine or anthology down in disgust saying "I can do better than that!", then proceed... more » Counterglow: Just a shout-out to an old high school librarian who's probably dead now. His last name was Johnson. We called him "Wimpy" because of a slight resem... more » hwilam: Anne McCaffery's Pern books create an entire catalogue of teaching ballads to remind humanity of the tasks necessary when the red star comes near. more » Grey_Area: Dan Simmons used the diary bit in Hyperion with the girl who was ageing backwards. That always creeped me out. "See you later alligator." "In a while... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Buckaroo Banzai: write it on your palm, lick your palm, slap your mentor on the forehead so he gets a copy too. more » RoboBagins: Gundam is only an acronym in alternative universe of Gundam Seed. In fact, I'm not sure of where it comes from in classic Universal Century (UC). In... more » techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte: OH GOD TVTROPES Thanks io9, for making me fail this semester!!! XD more » goldfarb: the 'Method of loci' is, and always will be, the coolest way to remember things... more » Belabras: I thought of another one, but I forgot it. more » zslane: A Neuromancer movie should be able to distinguish itself from The Matrix easily in terms of look and feel. The Matrix was ponderous, self-indulgent, a... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: What roll does Sasha Grey play in the movie? #neuromancer more » doggo: The sky above the port was the color of... #neuromancer more » ClintonD: Hope it doesn't end up like the script that's been floating around the internet from 1990. Basically, in the script, Wintermute's aim is not to merge ... more » Ruthless, If you let me: Will we get a review of Sasha Grey's Neuromancer project? EDIT: Just read the updates on that post. Not sure there could be much of a review with a s... more » Byronotron: does he wake up in the real world? #neuromancer more » neorandomizer: I always thought that Neuromancer was one of those un-makeable movies. Jonny Mnemonic sucked so please don’t do that again. #neuromancer more » i.nalys: How come Kahn gets to do Neuromancer?! Why not someone who showed she can do good movies (unlike Torque...)?! It's not as if Neuromancer wasn't intere... more » tetracycloide: why couldn't the ending just be one phone call between case and wintermute/neuromancer kinda / pauley where the AI says hi, asked where molly went, ca... more » -
#triviagasm
How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
The busier you get, the more stuff you forget, and navigating that mental clutter can be worse than steering through an asteroid field. Luckily, lots of intrepid galactic heroes have faced faulty memories, and created some handy techniques for remembering. More » -
#neuromancer
Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
It's been quite some time since we've heard any news about the Neuromancer, but director Joseph Kahn is apparently still working on it. He tweeted about it over the weekend — and William Gibson tweeted back. More » -
#sashagrey
Six Hours Of William Gibson's Neuromancer... Starring Sasha Grey As Molly
The Neuromancer movie may never get off the ground, but a performance/video installation version is coming to New York next week. When Sasha Grey accepted her Fleshbot award via video last night, she mentioned she's co-starring in a Neuromancer performance. More » -
#williamgibson
William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Is A "Stealth Fashion Bible"
Coolhunter Cayce Pollard, from William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, is the strangest kind of fashion icon, writes Kat at NoGoodForMe.com: invisible, allergic to brands, impenetrable. "She stands for the ultimate rejection of the Fashion Industrial Complex," but she also defines style. -
#books
Don't Ask The Wall Street Journal How To Wean Your Kids Off Reading Science Fiction
Somebody wrote to the Wall Street Journal's book advice column to ask how you go about convincing your 13-year-old nephew to stop reading science fiction. Thank goodness the WSJ's in-house book nerd was smart enough to say: You don't. More » -
#geowanking
A Map Of Your Future Mega-Cities And Megalopolises
The cities of the future are massive, sprawling, beautiful monsters, covering entire coastlines — and in some cases, entire continents. Whether it's Judge Dredd's Mega-Cities or William Gibson's "Sprawl," future cities always devour land. Here's a map of future megalopolises. More » -
#unfilmablebooks
Is There Such A Thing As A Gloriously Unfilmable Book?
Hollywood has taken everything, from your childhood toys to the novels that haunted your dreams, and turned them into splashy vehicles for young Scientologists to gallop through. Are there any books that Hollywood absolutely can't turn into movies? Or shouldn't? More » -
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#genrepioneers
Science Fiction Books That Launched Their Own Genres
Science fiction is all about discovery and invention, but only a few books have actually created whole new genres. Here are 10 books that pioneered a new type of science-fictional story. Do you have what it takes to join them?
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#asianfuturism
When Did Japan Stop Being The Future?
U.S. science fiction used to be fascinated with Japan, from Blade Runner to Neuromancer. Everything Japanese was cooler, sleeker and shinier than our grubby American aesthetic, and Japan was destined to dominate. And then, Japan's futuristic status waned. What happened? More » -
#triviagasm
Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
Is there life after death? Maybe, if you're wired. After all, death is just a failure of storage media. Science fiction is full of people who've died in meatspace, only to live on in cyberspace. Here's our inventory of cyber-Heaven. More » -
#books
4 Science Fiction Books Every Social Media Junkie Must Read
Social-media nerds need to read more science fiction, says Web 2.0 blog Anthrogoggles. To get you started, they have a list of four must-read novels, including Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End, and two William Gibson books. -
#books
Science Fiction Authors That Lit Geeks Think It's Cool To Read
For every lit author like Cormac McCarthy, who borrows science fiction themes, there are ten authors who start out writing science fiction, and then become beloved of literary hipsters. Here's a partial list. -
#quoteoftheday
Afro Futurist Lit Is Bleaker Than Cyberpunk
In the Afro-futurist fiction of Walter Mosley and Octavia Butler, the heroes are often at the mercy of the system, writes blogger Christopher Bradley. That isn't so much the case for Cyberpunk's outsider heroes, he points out. More »
