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William Gibson Explains The Secret Of SF Writing Success To Paolo Bacigalupi
How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
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 »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 »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.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 »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 »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 »Science Fiction Books That Launched Their Own Genres
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 »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 »One Author's List Of Quite Possibly Essential Science Fiction Includes William Gibson — And Event Horizon
Do Liv Tyler Neuromancer Rumors Mean The Film's Actually Happening?
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.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.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 »How Dangerous Is A Little Knowledge?
Future Dystopias Where Conservatives Have Won
Cyberpunk Increases Our Fear of Cybercrime
The Yellow Peril, Fu Manchu, and the Ethnic Future
Why Does My City Scream?
Just as Americans are going to the polls in November, a mass media campaign will be ramping up that depicts cities as both dangerous and wracked with torment. "My City Screams!" It could be a slogan for The Dark Knight. Or any of a host of other movies, TV shows or books. But it's actually the tagline for The Spirit, the new comic-book movie by noir master Frank Miller. We love to imagine cities as hazardous, smelly alien worlds, even as real-life U.S. cities are becoming safer and safer. Why is genre entertainment's portrayal of cities trapped in an era of tenements? More »