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William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy Just the facts, but far more complete than the other Johnny-come-lately "6 books and out" lists out there. All lists are in real-world chronological order. The chronology of the "Sprawl" series is Johnny Mnemonic short story - New Rose Hotel short story - Burning Chrome short story - Neuromancer - Count Zero - Mona Lisa Overdrive. Other stories in Burning Chrome fit more or less tightly into the imagined future of the series. By the time Gibson wrote the Skinner's Room short story - virtual light - Idoru - All Tomorrow's Parties sequence set closer in time, the near future had turned out different from the "Sprawl" future. There's a fascinating cyberpunk timeline at http://www.subsitu.com/cns/tl.htm that dovetails Gibson's work with the cyber, punk, and sf goings-on at the same time. Summary: Books Burning Chrome Neuromancer Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive The Difference Engine(with Bruce Sterling) Virtual Light Idoru All Tomorrow's Parties Short stories and articles the stories collected in Burning Chrome The Gernsback Continuum and Red Star, Winter Orbit were also collected in Mirrorshades Rocket Radio in Rolling Stone Skinner's Room in Visionary San Francisco Doing Television in The Face / Darwin in Spin Academy Leader in Cyberspace : First Steps The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders a mystery lost short story! Hippie Hat Brain Parasite in SEMIOTEXT[E] SF Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City in New Worlds Disneyland with the Death Penalty in Wired The Horned Heart of Neurope in SF Eye the foreword to a new edition of City Come A-Walking by John Shirley the foreword to a new edition of Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany the introduction to a new edition of The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling Idoru excerpt in Rolling Stone My Obsession essay about collecting wristwatches on eBay in Wired William Gibson on Steely Dan's Return article on their Two Against Nature CD. Metrophagy article in Whole Earth magazine Summer 2001 My Own Private Tokyo article in Wired Other Media Agrippa poem and artbook with Dennis Ashbaugh Aliens 3 script Visionary San Francisco literature/architecture exhibit cameo in Wild Palms Tomorrow Calling based on The Gernsback Continuum film version of Johnny Mnemonic film version of New Rose Hotel Kill Switch episode of The X-Files (with Tom Maddox) First Person Shooter episode of The X-Files (also co-written with Tom Maddox) film version of New Rose Hotel (screenplay by Christ Zois) film version of Neuromancer "Floating Away" track on (Not) Yellow Magic Orchestra's Technodon album "Dog Star Girl" track on Deborah Harry's Debravation album Memory Palace performance show (directed by Montxo Algora) Adaptations of William Gibson's work Neuromancer computer game Neuromancer graphic novel Hinterlands in graphic format in Freeflight comic book Voyager Electronic Books of Nm/CZ/MLO and VL Audiobook of Neuromancer narrated by William Gibson Johnny Mnemonic computer game Burning Chrome adaptation for the stage In more detail... Books I have the Library of Congress info for some books. Burning Chrome a varied collection of stories, many first published in Omni magazine. The short story details are listed elsewhere. Preface by Bruce Sterling * Johnny Mnemonic (rewritten as a movie and adapted as a computer game) * The Gernsback Continuum * Fragments of a Hologram Rose * The Belonging Kind (with John Shirley) * Hinterlands * Red Star, Winter Orbit * New Rose Hotel * The Winter Market * Dogfight (with Michael Swanwick) * Burning Chrome Not all the stories are part of the same future. US hardback Arbor House Publishing Company, 1986 ISBN 0-877-95780-0 US paperback An Ace Book, October 1987 ISBN: 0-441-08934-8 Cover: a fantastic digital blanked-out face by Richard Berry UK hardback Victor Gollancz, (London) UK, 1986 UK Paperback Grafton, (London) UK, 1988 ISBN 0-586-07461-9 (UK pbk) Neuromancer A star. It won the Hugo, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, Seiun, and Ditmar awards. Also available as graphic novel, electronic book, videogame, and spoken word recording. US Hardcover Phantasia Press, spring 1986 1st Phantasia Press ed. West Bloomfield ISBN 0932096417 Also 1st Ace hardcover ed. New York : Ace Books, 1994 ISBN 0441000681 US Paperback Ace Book, July 1984 (Ace Science Fiction original, then Ace S.F. Special, then an Ace Book) ISBN: 0-441-56959-5 Cover: digital face and hand by Richard Berry Count Zero My favorite, less detached, more varied themes, strong characters. Most readers prefer Neuromancer because it's more action-packed, but check out this quote. Hardcover Arbor House, March 1986 ISBN 0-877-95769-X US Paperback Ace Book, April 1987 ISBN: 0-441-11773-2 Cover: another wonderful digital face by Richard Berry Mona Lisa Overdrive The series continues; complex interwoven plot, strong female roles Hardcover Bantam Spectra, Nov. 1988 ISBN: 0-553-05250-0 Cover: Shiny chrome face--no more digital decay artwork, alas (c) 1988 by Will Cormier US Paperback UK Paperback Cover: Very different artwork, an airbrushed future motorcycle as I recall. Difference Engine Co-written with Bruce Sterling, another talented writer. A difficult "steampunk" novel. Very atmospheric. The more you know about Victorian history, the more you'll get out of it. US Hardback A Bantam Spectra Book, 1991 ISBN 0553070282 US Paperback Same cover art virtual light Set in the near future, William Gibson's lightest book. More focus on place than ideas. Funny. This expands the story "Skinner's Room" from the Visionary San Francisco catalog. Hardback Bantam Spectra, September 1993 ISBN: 0-553-07499-7 Cover: VR shades, dim face (c) 1993 Don Brautigam "Book design by Harakawa Sisco, Inc." US Paperback Same cover art. Idoru New work, Idoru is the Japanese borrowing of the English word "idol". A funny opening and Rydell reappears, but it doesn't really go anywhere. From the Library of Congress Index: PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE: 9609 SUBJECTS: Rock musicians--Psychology--Fiction. Virtual reality--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Psychological fiction. lcsh US hardcover Berkely Putnam, 1996. ISBN: 0399141308 UK hardcover? Viking Penguin All Tomorrow's Parties All Tomorrow's Parties is the title of a Velvet Underground song. The Bay Bridge from "Skinner's Room" and "virtual light", Laney from "Idoru" is living in the box city from "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City", Chevette from "virtual light", Rydell from "virtual light" and "Idoru", the Idoru from "Idoru", even Gibson's watch collecting obsession from his wired article. Nothing wrong with leitmotif recycling, but Gibson's plot mojo was stolen by Dr. Evil when he wrote this. His descriptions of Laney surfing the interstices of data are unrewarding, it's as vague as Asimov's psychohistory and Frank Herbert's oracular melange. ONLY buy this if you have all of the Sprawl series and you loved virtual light and Idoru. UK hardcover Viking Penguin,1999 Hardback ISBN: 0-670-87557-0 Trade Paperback ISBN: 0-670-87558-0 US hardcover Putnam, 1999 Hardcover ISBN: 0399145796 Short Stories and Articles The stories in Burning Chrome were published in various magazines and two were published in the Mirrorshades anthology edited by Bruce Sterling. "Burning Chrome" Story List "Johnny Mnemonic" 1981, originally published in Omni magazine "The Gernsback Continuum" (William Gibson's first professional publication, originally published in Universe 11, 1981 also contained in: Mirrorshades made into a brief TV film, Tomorrow Calling in the UK, 1995 "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (c) 1977 by UnEarth Publications William Gibson's first published story in the Summer 1977 issue of UnEarth. Mr. Fang has a scan of the zine's cover at http://www.waste.org/~alone/unearth.jpg "The Belonging Kind" (with John Shirley ), first appeared in Shadows 4, (c) 1981 "Hinterlands" originally published in Omni "Red Star, Winter Orbit" (with Bruce Sterling) originally published in Omni; also in Mirrorshades "New Rose Hotel" originally published in Omni "The Winter Market" originally published in Stardate 1986 "Dogfight" (with Michael Swanwick) originally published in Omni 1985 "Burning Chrome". originally published in Omni 1982, Omni Mirrorshades Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling is an excellent cyberpunk anthology which includes The Gernsback Continuum and Red Star, Winter Orbit. US hardback Arbor House, December 1986 ISBN 0877958688 US Paperback Ace Books, July 1988 ISBN 0-441-53382-5 Count Zero serialization Count Zero was published as a serial before it was published as a novel, in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The January '86 issue has part one, the February issue has part two, and the March issue has part three. The January cover is devoted to the story, with art by Hisaki Yasuda. Rocket Radio Ruminations on technology reuse and meaning. Restates themes from the Sprawl series as non-fiction, more personal. Rolling Stone, June 15th 1989, "Technology for the Nineties" section Photograph: head outlined by headphones, phone jack, circuits by William Duke. Doing Television One page, kids in a hotel room, covers nationalism, multinationals, environmental damaga, VR, test-tube babies, drugs, plagues. (!!!) Melancholy, absolutely stellar. The Face 1991 ?? Future Tense section p.81-82 Darwin Almost the same story as Doing TV Spin , 1991 ?? p.60-61 Illustration (sun, chopper, homeless, VR helmet) by Karl Denham Academy Leader in Cyberspace : First Steps This is a dry academic book of original contributions about cyberspace. Most of it is pointless pontification except for a fascinating history of Lucasfilm's "habitat", one of the first avatar-based communities. Gibson's three page story is an incredibly dense and mostly beyond me, truly fragments of a hologram rose. The girl Kelsey in an Australian room from Doing TV/Darwin reappears, interspersed with musings on technological reuse and references to data mining. I think "Academy Leader" refers to the countdown numerals at the beginning of a strip of film. I think the story is about the meta-act of zeroing in on details. Cyberspace: First Steps, 1991 Cambridge Massachusetts Edited by Michael Benedikt The MIT Press ISBN 0-262-02327-X (hard) ISBN 0-262-52177-6 (paperback) cover: mysterious technological device on a grid. The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders (unpublished) Stein Gjoen alerted me that Tom Maddox (another fine writer, and Gibson's partner on the two X-Files scripts) claims in a 1989 article at http://home.pacbell.net/tmaddox/virus23.html that Gibson wrote a story "The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders," Hippie Hat Brain Parasite in SEMIOTEXT[E] SF Edited by: Rudy Rucker, Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson Semiotext(e) / New York Ak Press / Edinburgh, Scotland 1989 ISBN: 0-93675643-8 (USA) ISBN: 1-873176-81-3 Gibson Story - "Hippie Hat Brain Parasite" pp 109-112 A wild set of fringe SF stories. Gibson's brief story about paranoia and conspiracies about aliens is different from his cyber work, but it fits right in. Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City in New Worlds The description of a cardboard city reappears in "All Tomorrow's Parties". Edited by David Garnett Consulting Editor: Michael Moorcock Volume 64, Number 222 White Wolf Publishing, Clarkston GA Gibson Story - "Thirteen Views Of A Cardboard City" pp 338-349 ISBN: 1-56504-190-9 Mr. Fang points out that this story also appeared in The Year's Best SF vol. 3 (edited by David G. Hartwell and published in 1998 by HarperPrism) Skinner's Room This short story appeared in the catalog for the Visionary San Francisco exhibition. The characters and takeover of the Bay Bridge by the homeless reappear in Virtual Light, and then again in All Tomorrow's Parties. Visionary San Francisco, 1990 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Prestel-Verlag, Munich ISBN: 3-7913-1060-7 (hard) 0-918-47115-X (soft) Cover: (sketch of Mission Bay development) by John Kriken, SOM Disneyland with the Death Penalty Cynical article on Singapore, later attacked in Wired's letters section Published in Wired 1.4, Sept-Oct. 1993, p. 51-114 ISSN 1059-1028 link at http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyberpunk/William_Gibson/gibson_disney_death.article Introduction to the collection Heatseeker Mr. Fang reports that William Gibson wrote the introduction to a book of John Shirley short stories called Heatseeker. Auth/Ed: Stephen P. Brown and John Shirley Year: 1989 ISBN: 0-910489-26-2 Pub: Scream/Press Foreword to the novel Dhalgren William Gibson wrote a foreword to a new edition of Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Paperback Dhalgren, Wesleyn University Press, 1996 ISBN 0-8195-6299-8 Special edition signed by both Samuel R. Delany and William Gibson. Foreword to the novel City Come A-Walking William Gibson wrote a foreword to a new edition of City Come A-Walking by John Shirley. Published by Eyeball Books. From their site: An eloquent foreword by William Gibson sets the novel, and Shirley, into historical context. Foreword to the reissue of The Artificial Kid William Gibson wrote a six-page introduction to a new edition of The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling. Published by the now-defunct Cortext division of Hardwired. ISBN: 1-888869-16-X PS3569.T3876A89 1997 813'.54-dc21 97-14741 Review of The Acid House The Spring 1996 issue of SF Eye includes a WG review of The Acid House by Irvine Welsh. Idoru An excerpt from Idoru is available in the issue #735, May 30, 1996, of Rolling Stone magazine. The Horned Heart of Neuropa Mr. Fang reports the Fall 1997 issue of SF Eye includes a William Gibson essay essay titled "Jack Womak and the Horned Heart of Neuropa." My Obsession An essay about collecting wristwatches on eBay that appeared in Wired 7.01 January 1999. The theme appears in All Tomorrow's Parties. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/ebay.html Metrophagy An article in the Viridian issue of Whole Earth magazine Summer 2001, assembled by his collaborator Bruce Sterling. William Gibson on Steely Dan's Return a This article on their Two Against Nature CD appeared on the Addicted to Noise site in their Issue 6.03 March 2000 , at http://www.addict.com/issues/6.03/html/hifi/Cover_Story/Gibson_Essay/ My Own Private Tokyo William Gibson wrote this brief article in Wired 9.09 September 2001. His fondness for the place comes across, but the dozens of thumbnail pictures are more interesting than the text. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/gibson.html Other Media Agrippa Ruminations on memory and family, fragmented. Released as a limited edition encrypted program on floppy, designed to self-destruct when read. Some versions came with self-destructing artwork by Dennis Ashbaugh. Eventually decoded by hackers, versions of the text are available on the net. In HTML at http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/htmldocs/agrippa.html, but I think the ASCII at file://bush.cs.tamu.edu/pub/misc/erich/agrippa looks better. Here are the details from http://www.euro.net/mark-space/bkAgrippa.html William Gibson, Dennis Ashbaugh AGRIPPA: A Book of the Dead hardback: Kevin Begos Publishing Inc, US, 1992 art book, poem, metaphor, identity, death, apocalyptic Visuals by Dennis Ashbaugh and text by William Gibson. Contains a floppy disc. This is a self-destructing book: images fade, disc crashes. Gibson's text is available on the net. "A collaboration between author William Gibson, publisher Kevin Begos Jr, and artist Dennis Ashbaugh. This art-work contains engravings by Ashbaugh which appear or disappear in light and an on-disk semi-autobiographical poem by William Gibson which is unreadable after having been read once. Agrippa is notable because in many respects it blurs the lines about what art is, and adds fuel to the fire on issues of property rights and intellectual property. A highlight of 1992 was the release of Gibson's poem on to the net". --Andy Hawks (in FutureCulture FAQ , on the Internet). [a review of this book by Peter Schwenger can be found in: Flame Wars edited by Mark Dery.] Or for the text of Agrippa plus interviews by Marisa Golini and by Darren Wershler-Henry at: gopher://english.hss.cmu.edu:70/0F-2%3A1598%3AGibson Visionary San Francisco This was a literature meets architecture show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. From the exhbition book: Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and shown at the museum June 14-August 26, 1990 William Gibson appeared on a monitor discussing the future and reading from Skinner's Room. Wild Palms An inventive miniseries totally different from everything else on TV, that was roundly criticized for being differerent. William Gibson appears in a scene in Virtual Reality, where he says (roughly) "I invented cyberspace". That's my recollection, anyway. Erich Schneider , maintainer of the alt.cyberpunk faq, remembers Gibson's cameo being at a "New Realism"/"Syntheotics" meeting: Paige: This is William Gibson, Harry. Harry: Oh, yeah ... _Neuromancer_, right? Paige: He invented the word "cyberspace". Gibson: And they'll never let me forget it. Karl Reinsch informed me that Gibson wrote "Where The Holograms Go" for the "Wild Palms reader" on pages 122-123. He says it looks like a short story but the back cover calls it a set of song lyrics.? Edited by Roger Trilling and Stuart Swezey. "A Thomas Dunne book." St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. c1993. ISBN NUMBER: 0312090838 : $14.95 ISBN 0-262-52177-6 (paperback) The alleged Alien ^3 Script A well-written (surprise!) script for the movie. Themes of Russian/American/Chinese conflict in space, virus. There is some dispute whether the versions on the net are genuine. The merits of Gibson's script over the eventual filmed script (story by Vincent Ward, screenplay by David Giler, Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson) are often debated in newsgroups. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~joker/misc/aliens3.html is the complete ASCII version It's also available formatted, but with gaps, at http://www.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/cyber/gibson/alien3.html The Gernsback Continuum / Tomorrow Calling Apparently The Gernsback Continuum was made into a short film, Tomorrow Calling, in the UK, 1995 Other Movie Attempts "Cabana Boys Productions" had rights to Neuromancer, they reverted to Gibson. At one point Malcolm McLaren had rights to Burning Chrome Johnny Mnemonic movie Directed by Robert Longo and starring Keanu Reeves (details at the IMDB). Gibson himself says Hollywood forces changed the movie from his and Longo's vision, and that the Japanese cut of the movie (in English with Japanese subtitles) is closer to their intent. [$$$ anyone know how to get a Japanese video in the U.S.?] The plot is quite different than that of the short story, but some core ideas remain. Because of overlapping rights, the Molly Millions character does not appear in the film. Sony has an OK site for the movie, at http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/movies/Mnemonic/intro.html and http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/06jonmnu.html. There's a Cyberspace demo download, but it only works on Windows 3.1 with WinG. Johnny Mnemonic The Screenplay and the Story The screenplay presents the narrative drive of the film a lot better than the film itself does. (this is lifted from http://www.euro.net/mark-space/bkJohnnyMnemonicScreenplay.html) US paperback Ace, (New York) US, June 1995 ISBN 0-441-00234-X screenplay, short story, science fiction, film, cyberpunk Illustrated with photos from the film. "He's not transporting drugs or jewels. He's moving information. The computer chip in his head is overloaded with white-hot data. He has twenty-four hours before the overload fries his brain -- and he's got an army of Yakuza killers on his trail. "And his only allies are a cybernetic dolphin and a sexy streetfighter with a hardwired taste for violence... "In 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer -- winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K.Dick Awards -- introduced the concept of cyberspace to the world -- and revolutionized the way we look at the future. Rolling Stone labeled him 'science fiction's hottest author' -- and in the years since, his incomparably inventive body of work has made his name synonymous with 'visionary'. Now for the first time, Gibson's corrupt, computer-driven future is brought to the screen in Johnny Mnemonic -- based on a story previously published in Gibson's highly praised collection, Burning Chrome . "This book, illustrated with exclusive photographs, contains the full text of William Gibson's exciting original screenplay -- and the short story that inspired it". New Rose Hotel movie Pressman Films, 1998 Gibson's New Rose Hotel short story was originally optioned by Malcolm McLaren (of Sex Pistols and Buffalo Gals fame) at some point and was in development for years. Abel Ferrara (director of Bad Lieutenant) made a low-budget version of it starring Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken (details at the IMDB); the screenplay is by Christ Zois. Kill Switch episode of The X-Files (co-written with Tom Maddox) Episode 5X11, First aired February 15, 1998. Fox has a detailed write-up with links A comfortable statement of Gibson's traditional themes: an AI released onto the net (from Neuromancer) and human consciousness melded with the net (from Mona Lisa Overdrive). Nice dialog, a vulnerable hacker girl (why do they always have Darryl Hannah Blade Runner replicant eye makeup?) It feels about 70 minutes long, but it's shoehorned into 48 or so minutes of TV. First Person Shooter episode of The X-Files (also co-written with Tom Maddox) Episode 7ABX13, First aired March 5, 2000. Fox says "A murder inside the high-tech world of a virtual reality game leads Scully to battle a deadly digital character in order to save Mulder's life." I say the promotional posters for the company "First Person Shooter" are a hoot, but the "They're trapped in the computer and we can't shut it off" is wayyy tired. It's just an excuse to explore the relationship between Scully and Mulder (again Gibson has Scully rescuing Mulder instead of vice-versa), and satirize the gender issues in violent games and sexy avatars. id software's own Graeme Devine slammed the presentation of the game business in his .plan file. Neuromancer movie? The February 1999 Wired 7.02 has a piece on director Chris Cunningham announcing that Seven Arts will release a movie of Neuromancer in 2000. There was lots of details at www.neuromancer.org , but by June 2000 the site is unreachable. Floating Away track Lech mentions that Gibson appears on the the (Not) Yellow Magic Orchestra's album "Technodon" from 1993. Gibson penned the lyric for the third track, "Floating Away" (or perhaps he - or Y.M.O. for that matter - puzzled together earlier pieces). Anyhow, he's the one reading it. The album's available from Toshiba EMI. The group's former label has the rights to the name "Yellow Magic Orchestra". Dog Star Girl track Louis A. Bustamante who maintains a Deborah Harry site, told me that also in 1993, Gibson co-wrote "Dog Star Girl" with Chris Stein on Deborah Harry's "Debravation" album, Chrysalis UK CD Album (0946 3 26033 2 6). Here are the lyrics: Maybe it's just a twist of light tonight, but the city's so bright, this whole town's in focus. He'd always call me "Baby Strange." He's hold my head and pray for rain. Oh Johnny, let me be your dog star girl. Let me curl inside. The fire's just right. The fire's just right in focus. But, then he said, "Like, anything goes, baby." But I don't know. I just don't know. Do you? And how'd I ever get to this dead man's town where the rain, where the rain falls down, where the rain falls down forever? And then he said, "So much for you, so much for me," but I don't see. No, I don't see. Do you? And how'd I ever get to this dead man's town where the rain, where the rain falls down, where the rain falls down forever? Forever. Forever. Forever. Forever. (Deborah/Debbie Harry earlier made the Koo Koo album with an H.R. Giger SF-esque cover, written, arranged, performed, and produced by the legendary disco R&B powerhouse CHIC, for whom I maintain a similarly complete discography. Small world.) Memory Palace "Script Hound" mentions that in 1992 at Art Futura, Barcelona, Montxo Algora directed "Memory Palace", a performance show based on an original text by William Gibson, featuring The theatre group "La Fura dels Baus", with images by Karl Sims, Rebecca Allen, Mark Pellington and music by Peter Gabriel and others. A 12 minute preview of this show will be screened in Hong Kong in April 2000 under the title "Speed" Adaptations Graphic Novel of Neuromancer Nicely done first third of Neuromancer. Very hard to track down, but here are the details: William Gibson's Neuromancer \ The Graphic Novel ... Volume 1 by Tom De Haven & Bruce Jensen A Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc Book Berkley Books, October 1989 ISBN: 0-425-12016-3 Cover: (Case on red fluorescent tubes, 'trodes trailing upwards) by Bruce Jensen. Berkley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. It also says "For info, address: Byron Preiss, Visual Publications, Inc., 24 West 25 Street, New York, NY 10010. Comic of Hinterlands An interesting evocation of the fake paradise of the short story from Burning Chrome. adapted and illustrated by Gavin Lonergan appeared in Freeflight #5 and #6, Dec/Jan 95 and Apr/May 95, published by Thinkblots. Here's the announcement of it on alt.cyberpunk: From alt.cyberpunk.28400 March 1995 Message-ID: <D1xD95.BI1@iceonline.com> From: patricks@icebox.iceonline.com (Patrick Sauriol) Subject: MISC: Gibson story adapted to comic books There's going to be an adaptation of the William Gibson short story 'Hinterlands' (from his compliation "Burning Chrome") in graphic format. The work will appear in a independent comic book called "Freeflight", issues #5 coming out this month) and concluding in #6 (in March). The story is twenty pages in length, broken up into two segments to fit into the anthology format. The work was adapted by Vancouver artist Gavin Longeran, and has a Moebius-look to it. Gibson was involved in the adaptation process directly, between breaks and faxing while working on his adaptation of 'Johnny Mnemonic'. As well, there's a computer-generated cover image depicting the alien seashell from the story. Anyone interested in getting a copy can just cruise down to their local comic shop at the end of the month and ask for it. Computer game of Neuromancer Role-playing adventure game with low-rez graphics Interplay, 1988?, distributed by Mediagenic for Apple II, Commodore C64, and Amiga computers. Interplay's site still has the cheats for the game, but the originals are no longer available. Hacked versions of all three are floating around on the Internet, and theApple ][ and C64 games are playable on a PC using freeware/shareware emulators. Supposedly the C64 version is the best, with better graphics . **I'll pay money for a physical copy of the original game. $$ Mentioned in Omni magazine, 1988?, Games section article. "A real Neuromancer game, however, would probably kill or main you or maybe give you a mild shock if you lost," Gibson quips. "It amuses me that Neuromancer is now a product that you can actually play." Gibson, however, doesn't play computer games. In fact, when he wrote the novel he didn't even own a personal computer. "Maybe that's why I was able to bring a sense of wonder to computing," he says. Audio book of Neuromancer William Gibson reads Neuromancer. Gibson's flat twang voice work can't express the variety of all the characters, but his presentation of the narrative drive of the tale is excellent. His narration reveals the spiritual center of the tale in the forty hours/5 minutes that Case is flatlined in Neuromancer's cyberspace construct; it's a passage of lyrical emotion. U2 is credited with some of the incidental sounds in the background, but they're very incidental. It was published by Time Warner AudioBooks http://pathfinder.com/twep/twab/, but it is no longer listed in their catalog. Call 310/205-7451 to order. Electronic Book Versions Voyager Co. (http://www.voyagerco.com) sold an Expanded Book edition of Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive on floppy disk for Mac and PC. It's surprisingly readable and has search, comment, and bookmark features, but the content is very plain. I would have liked to see the original artwork, the extensive reviews of Neuromancer, etc. From http://www.voyagerco.com/CD/gh/p.eb.html Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Count Zero by William Gibson (Mac/Win) $19.95 Cat. No. EB15 June 1992 ISBN: 1-155940-254-7 Cover: gray morphed liquid shapes "WOMBO, 1991" (c) David Em Virtual Light by William Gibson (Mac) $19.95 Johnny Mnemonic computer game From Sony, it blended video sequences with computer gaming. Hyped in Wired magazine. As with seemingly every other Full-Motion Video game, it was touted as breaking through the linearity problem of pre-canned video segments before its release, and then after release the consensus was "it sucks like every other FMV game" Burning Chrome stage adaptation Next Theatre in Evanston, IL is working on it, check out the details at http://burningcity.com/live_chrome.html Criticism Gibson's occasional writing partner Tom Maddox wrote "Cobra, She Said" for Fantasy Review in April, 1986, he has a copy at http://home.pacbell.net/tmaddox/cobra.html. In addition to all the book reports and ruminations on the Net, there is a book of "criticism and interpretation" William Gibson by Lance Olsen From the Library of Congress Index SUBJECTS: Gibson, William, 1948- --Criticism and interpretation. Science fiction, American--History and criticism. SERIES TITLES (Indexed under SERI option): Starmont reader's guide, 0272-7330 ; 58 NOTES: Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119) and index. . San Bernardino, Calif. : Borgo Press, c1992. ISBN: 1557421994 (hc) 155742198 Also, there is an online essay, Technology and Its Dangerous Effects on Nature and Human Life as Perceived in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer - a research paper by Orlin Damyanov written for an English Literature and Criticism class with Prof. Dr. Beardsworth at the American University of Paris. Links AltaVista has lots of articles if you search on +title:"William Gibson". Yahoo's William Gibson list is about 11 entries. Alas, since I started this list, many, many of these links have died, many of them excellent artifacts of late 90's Web design. There's a William Gibson story somewhere in there about the inelegant decay of hyperlinked ideas into incoherency. http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/student/tamaleav/gib_p.html is a very complete set of online Gibson interviews and articles. William Gibson's Yardshow, starting in 1996 at www.vkool.com/gibson/index1.html was a full-on graphic set of the man's own pages, including several talks and a bibliography ("nothing so much as the thinking man's David Hasslehoff"). The original iteration was the best, the last is available (for now) at http://www.sweatshop.com/idoru/ http://www.euro.net/mark-space/bioWilliamGibson.html brief interesting biography, pages on each book and related items http://www.braid.com - information on Rick Berry, the gifted artist who did the US paperback Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, and Count Zero covers http://ee.oulu.fi/~thefinn/gibson/gibson.html - European book covers http://www.knarf.demon.co.uk/alt-cp.htm - the cyberpunk FAQ http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/gibson/gibson.html - good introductory page http://www.vt.edu:10021/J/jfoley/gibson/gibson.html - a few pages the color of Television tuned to a dead channel http://www-user.cibola.net/~michaela/gibson/ - nice-looking, "We've taken the liberty of writing down our thoughts on the biggies of Gibson's work, as well as presenting Michael's ideas on what the characters look like. All character images ©1995 Michael Hayden. " http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyberpunk/William_Gibson/ - a good simple set of links, also known as http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyberpunk/William_Gibson/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Station/7183/ - asianwired has a personal tribute to Gibson, with good links. Interview Links Go to the excellent "William Gibson Links" page at http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/student/tamaleav/gib_p.html. There is another detailed list of interviews at http://www-user.cibola.net/~michaela/gibson/etc.htm Here's an older incomplete set. http://www.algonet.se/~danj/gibson1.html interview, including audio segments http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyberpunk/William_Gibson/maddox.interview - Gibson and Maddox interviewed. Very good thoughtful stuff. May 10, 1993 http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyberpunk/William_Gibson/sterling_gibson_nas.speeches Sept. 22, 1993 http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyberpunk/William_Gibson/xpress.interview - Ottawa X-Press cover, after Virtual Light 1993 http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Cyberpunk/William_Gibson/rogers_gibson.interview a pretty dazed interview after Virtual Light about Nov. 4, 1993 http://www.shift.com/ShiftProd/cgi-bin/DisplayPage?SITE=Shift&KEY=shift2-2.gibson&TRACKID=MC_98 - Shift Magazine 1995 http://www.radio.cbc.ca/radio/programs/current/mside/gibson.html audio interview, when the Johnny Mnemonic movie was released 1995 http://www.rocknroll.net/mattc/articles/gibsonfull.html 1995 http://www.subspace.net:5000/domain/www.subspace.net/cyber/gibson.html interview, when the Johnny Mnemonic movie was released 1996 http://www.salon1999.com/weekly/gibson961014.html - a good interview in the Web-based magazine Salon 1996 http://www.vkool.com/gibson/thought.html - an auto-interview at his own (former) Web site 1998 http://www.cinescape.com/insider/3qgibson.html - three questions about movie versions of New Rose Hotel and Neuromancer Online Conferences Two separate online conferences took place on CompuServe and America Online (AOL) on May 18 1995 for the launch of Johnny Mnemonic. the CompuServe conference took place on Ziff Davis' ZiffNet site -- "GO JohnnyM" -- (6:00 - 7:00 p.m. PST) the AOL conference was hosted by Wired magazine in the Computing Rotunda -- Keyword: Wired -- (7:00 - 8:00 p.m. PST). Credits Erich Schneider , maintainer of the alt.cyberpunk faq, had useful feedback. loverman pointed out some other Gibson work, and his incredible lost Web pages at http://www.vkool.com/loverman convinced me not to dress this up until I have some real graphics chops (i.e., never!). I used information from http://www.euro.net/mark-space/ as credited. Karl Reinsch pointed out Gibson's stories in Semiotext[e] SF and New Worlds, and his story/lyrics for the Wild Palms reader. "Script Hound" gave me the "Memory Palace"/"Speed" info, plus the "All Tomorrow's Parties" details. Louis A. Bustamante supplied the Dog Star Girl info and lyrics. Stein Gjoen pointed out Tom Maddox's reference to "The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders". Mr. Fang provided tons of updates. Copyright © 1996-2002 S Page