[{"name":"William Gibson's Neuromancer: The Graphic Novel","slug":"william-gibson-s-neuromancer-the-graphic-novel","year":1984,"rating":7.5,"category":"comics","collections":["recommended"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"In the 21st Century, Case, the best interface cowboy ever to run in the world-wide computer net, and Molly, the female mercenary with computer eyes and switchblade fingers, are recruited for a secret mission that will bring them into conflict with the world's most powerful corporate clan; a conflict that will be fought in the shifting territory where mind meets circuitry: Cyberspace!","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780871355744","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14772.William_Gibson_s_Neuromancer","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1742385836,"poster_url":"/content/literature/00/006fbbec1284.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/00/006fbbec1284_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Comics","collections_title":["Recommended"],"url":"/read/william-gibson-s-neuromancer-the-graphic-novel"},{"name":"The Difference Engine","slug":"the-difference-engine","year":1990,"rating":6.9,"category":"books","collections":["recommended"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward \"Leviathan\" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's and Sterling's unique visions - in a new and totally unexpected direction!","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780553294613","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337116.The_Difference_Engine","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741004027,"poster_url":"/content/literature/d1/d11af994e13a.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/d1/d11af994e13a_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended"],"url":"/read/the-difference-engine"},{"name":"The Peripheral","slug":"the-peripheral","year":2014,"rating":7.8,"category":"books","collections":["recommended","classic"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times\u2013bestselling Zero History.Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do\u2014a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He's supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That's all there is to it. He's offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn't what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780399158445","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821159-the-peripheral","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741003845,"poster_url":"/content/literature/0f/0f3ad8e0c239.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/0f/0f3ad8e0c239_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended","Classic"],"url":"/read/the-peripheral"},{"name":"All Tomorrow's Parties","slug":"all-tomorrow-s-parties","year":1999,"rating":7.9,"category":"books","collections":["recommended"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"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","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780425190449","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22321.All_Tomorrow_s_Parties","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741003812,"poster_url":"/content/literature/ce/ce7b7a412470.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/ce/ce7b7a412470_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended"],"url":"/read/all-tomorrow-s-parties"},{"name":"Count Zero","slug":"count-zero","year":1986,"rating":8,"category":"books","collections":["recommended","classic"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future.A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he\u2019s recovering to get a defecting chief of R&D\u2014and the biochip he\u2019s perfected\u2014out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties\u2014some of whom aren\u2019t remotely human....","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":null,"reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22200.Count_Zero","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741003775,"poster_url":"/content/literature/a3/a37736a395b4.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/a3/a37736a395b4_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended","Classic"],"url":"/read/count-zero"}]