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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. 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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"},{"name":"Pattern Recognition","slug":"pattern-recognition","year":2003,"rating":7.7,"category":"books","collections":["recommended"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780425198681","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22320.Pattern_Recognition","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741003747,"poster_url":"/content/literature/25/251c365da84e.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/25/251c365da84e_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended"],"url":"/read/pattern-recognition"},{"name":"Idoru","slug":"idoru","year":1996,"rating":7.7,"category":"books","collections":["recommended"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"In twenty-first century Tokyo, Rez, one of the world's biggest rock stars, prepares to marry Rei Toe, Japan's biggest media star, who is known as the Idoru and who exists only in virtual reality. 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What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780140157727","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22326.Virtual_Light","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741003670,"poster_url":"/content/literature/90/9018653da177.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/90/9018653da177_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Classic"],"url":"/read/virtual-light"},{"name":"Mona Lisa Overdrive","slug":"mona-lisa-overdrive","year":1988,"rating":8,"category":"books","collections":["recommended","classic"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive.\u00a0Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.\u00a0Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.\u00a0Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.\u00a0Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known.\u00a0And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780553281743","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154091.Mona_Lisa_Overdrive","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741003654,"poster_url":"/content/literature/27/27b9028a62c3.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/27/27b9028a62c3_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended","Classic"],"url":"/read/mona-lisa-overdrive"},{"name":"Johnny Mnemonic","slug":"johnny-mnemonic","year":1981,"rating":7.6,"category":"books","collections":["recommended","classic"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"Johnny is a courier. He carries other people's memories, millions of them, downloaded into his brain... Working out of Beijing, he is hired to carry a package to the States. The hundreds of gigabytes stashed in his head are far beyond his capacity, but as long as he gets downloaded quickly they won't do him any permanent harm...But headaches are the least of Johnny's problems. The Americans aren't the only ones who want the data. The Yakuza are after Johnny too. Not all of him, though. All they need is his cryogenically frozen head...In Johnny Mnemonic, the science-fiction guru of our age brings his acid-drenched tale of the near future to the screen for the first time. Containing William Gibson's original short story, his full script and exclusive stills from the film, this classic of the cyberpunk era expresses the unique vision of the author who was the first to see his way into tomorrow...","synopsis":null,"quote":"In the nearly total darkness of a Nighttown noon, who notices a few dozen mad children lost in the rafters?","isbn":"9780002246187","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313998.Johnny_Mnemonic","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1741003248,"poster_url":"/content/literature/a3/a37d7509e43e.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/a3/a37d7509e43e_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended","Classic"],"url":"/read/johnny-mnemonic"},{"name":"Burning Chrome","slug":"burning-chrome","year":1986,"rating":8.1,"category":"stories","collections":["recommended","classic"],"author":"William Gibson","description":"Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome.","synopsis":"\"Burning Chrome\" tells the story of two freelance hackers\u2014Automatic Jack, the narrator and a hardware specialist; and Bobby Quine, a software expert. Bobby becomes infatuated with a girl named Rikki and wants to become wealthy in order to impress her. Jack has acquired a powerful Russian \"icebreaker\" program that can penetrate corporate security systems. Bobby suggests that they use it to break into the system of a notorious and vicious criminal known as Chrome, who handles money transfers for organized crime, and Jack reluctantly agrees to help. The break-in is successful, and Jack and Bobby empty Chrome's bank accounts, but they discover afterward that Rikki had been working in a brothel with ties to Chrome. She uses her earnings to buy a set of cybernetic eye implants for herself and go to Hollywood; however, Jack uses his money to switch her plane ticket to Chiba City, where Rikki has always dreamed of going. He buys her a return ticket as well but she never uses it. The news leaves both men devastated, as they have grown to love her, and Jack never sees her again. 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With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.","synopsis":null,"quote":"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.","isbn":null,"reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328.Neuromancer","created_at":1739567124,"updated_at":1740944319,"poster_url":"/content/literature/41/4102355d0783.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/41/4102355d0783_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":["Recommended","Classic"],"url":"/read/neuromancer"},{"name":"Spook Country","slug":"spook-country","year":2007,"rating":7.4,"category":"books","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer. Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to. Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms. Bobby Chombo is a \"producer\", and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9780399154300","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22322.Spook_Country","created_at":1740490021,"updated_at":1740490021,"poster_url":"/content/literature/49/49a7fa7d8f0c.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/49/49a7fa7d8f0c_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/spook-country"},{"name":"Skinner's Room","slug":"skinner-s-room","year":1991,"rating":null,"category":"stories","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"\"Skinner's Room\" is a science fiction short story by American-Canadian author William Gibson, originally composed for Visionary San Francisco, a 1990 museum exhibition exploring the future of San Francisco. It features the first appearance in Gibson's fiction of \"the Bridge\", which Gibson revisited as the setting of his acclaimed Bridge trilogy of novels. In the story, the Bridge is overrun by squatters, among them Skinner, who occupies a shack atop a bridgetower. An altered version of the story was published in Omni magazine and subsequently anthologized. \"Skinner's Room\" was nominated for the 1992 Locus Award for Best Short Story. ","synopsis":"The story takes place in a near-future where the United States is in decline, having been negatively affected by some event referred to as the \"devaluations.\" It is set in a decaying San Francisco in which the San Francisco\u2013Oakland Bay Bridge is closed and taken over by the homeless.[1] The wealthy denizens of the city have retreated to gated-access enclaves. The room mentioned in the title is a shack built on top one of the bridge's towers.Skinner has lived on the bridge, and in his room, for a long time, and is accompanied by a girl with an interest in the history of the bridge town and who arrived only three months before.\r\n\r\nThe story reveals that, long ago, the Bridge had been closed to vehicle traffic (for three years) and that the pressure to find somewhere to live had forced homeless people to seize the bridge and set up a squatters' town there.[4] The community that arose was vibrant and was watched by the world's media. The town grew in a piecemeal fashion, built from salvaged parts as well as from material apparently donated by more wealthy nations. At the end of the story Skinner has a dream in which he remembers being at the front of the crowd who seized the bridge (Skinner is the first onto the bridge) and scaled the towers.","quote":null,"isbn":null,"reference_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner%27s_Room","created_at":1740489461,"updated_at":1740489622,"poster_url":"/content/literature/92/9250a95da3b3.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/92/9250a95da3b3_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Stories","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/skinner-s-room"},{"name":"New Rose Hotel","slug":"new-rose-hotel","year":1981,"rating":7.2,"category":"stories","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"The story follows two corporate extraction agents, who perform the new version of corporate espionage, grabbing scientists and engineers from rival firms. Given the level of protection offered, extracting them from a company is a highly dangerous affair. In the story, the narrator and his partner Fox have joined up with a new associate, Sandii, in an attempt to extract an extremely talented biologist from a hot new German research company. The company's security is superb, and the attempt takes considerable time to plan.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9783641168995","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54905271-new-rose-hotel","created_at":1740482870,"updated_at":1740482870,"poster_url":"/content/literature/ed/ed019ba31668.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/ed/ed019ba31668_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Stories","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/new-rose-hotel"},{"name":"Archangel #5","slug":"archangel-5","year":2017,"rating":6.9,"category":"comics","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"Aboard a B-29 bomber soaring high over Europe, the Vice-President of a radioactive America one reality removed from our own is about to nuke all of history as we know it. 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One lone pilot and those who dare to trust him are all that stand in the way of a radioactive future.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":null,"reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34972244-archangel-4","created_at":1740408615,"updated_at":1740408615,"poster_url":"/content/literature/1a/1a6932bdba6b.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/1a/1a6932bdba6b_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Comics","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/archangel-4"},{"name":"Archangel #3","slug":"archangel-3","year":2016,"rating":7.2,"category":"comics","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"Mr. Baby\u2014a bizarre looking, dangerous man\u2014is the sole survivor of Berlin's prewar nightlife. Play by his rules, and he can get you anything, but he's not one to be crossed. A hard lesson for our inter-dimensional pilot\u2026 and the corrupt officials from his world who want him dead.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":null,"reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32467042-archangel-3","created_at":1740408602,"updated_at":1740408602,"poster_url":"/content/literature/44/44de3dfe90fe.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/44/44de3dfe90fe_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Comics","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/archangel-3"},{"name":"Archangel #2","slug":"archangel-2","year":2016,"rating":7.2,"category":"comics","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"A military pilot from a radioactive, alternate future has arrived in Berlin 1945, and the corrupt officials from his world want him stopped. Though he won't reveal the details of his mission, he's made one thing clear: our entire reality is at stake.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":null,"reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30845599-archangel-2","created_at":1740408588,"updated_at":1740408588,"poster_url":"/content/literature/1e/1e6b634b2c03.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/1e/1e6b634b2c03_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Comics","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/archangel-2"},{"name":"Archangel #1","slug":"archangel-1","year":2016,"rating":7.5,"category":"comics","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"Science Fiction Superstar William Gibson comes to comics! The U.S. political leaders of 2016 abandon the radioactive planet they've destroyed and harness the power of humanity's last hope: The Splitter, a colossal machine designed to manufacture a bright new reality for them to infiltrate and corrupt.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":null,"reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30223880-archangel-1","created_at":1740408575,"updated_at":1740408575,"poster_url":"/content/literature/b4/b47d7a6cea32.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/b4/b47d7a6cea32_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Comics","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/archangel-1"},{"name":"Agency","slug":"agency","year":2020,"rating":7.6,"category":"books","collections":null,"author":"William Gibson","description":"In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted \"app-whisperer\" is hired by a mysterious San Francisco start-up and finds herself in contact with a unique and surprisingly combat-savvy AI.","synopsis":null,"quote":null,"isbn":"9781101986950","reference_url":"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34943643-agency","created_at":1740408089,"updated_at":1740408089,"poster_url":"/content/literature/82/8235f04f30a0.jpg","poster_thumbnail_url":"/content/literature/82/8235f04f30a0_thumb.jpg","category_title":"Books","collections_title":[],"url":"/read/agency"}]