by William Gibson · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788445073834
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This volume brings together the first stories by William Gibson, originally published in anthologies and specialized magazines. Most of them were nominated for the main genre awards (Hugo, Nebula, Locus). Two of these stories, Burning Chrome and Johnny Mnemonic (origin of the film of the same name starring Keanu Reeves in 1995), are set in the same universe as Neuromancer, which will become the aesthetic and technological reference of the cyberpunk movement. A collection of science fiction stories by acclaimed author William Gibson, ideal for lovers of the cyberpunk genre.
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
