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William Gibson bibliography
William Gibson in 2007
Novels
↙ 12 Articles
↙ 25 Stories
↙ 21 Collections
↙ 1 Scripts
↙ 6 Screen appearances
↙ 13 Forewords, introductions and afterwords
↙ 16 Miscellanea
↙ 9
References and footnotes
The works of
William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the
cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of
cyberspace in "
Burning Chrome " (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his
debut novel
Neuromancer .
[1]
[2] Gibson's early short fiction is recognized as cyberpunk's finest work,
[3] effectively renovating the
science fiction genre which had been hitherto considered widely insignificant.
[4]
At the turn of the 1990s, after the completion of his
Sprawl trilogy of novels, Gibson contributed the text to a number of performance art pieces and exhibitions,
[2]
[5]
[6] as well as writing lyrics for musicians
Yellow Magic Orchestra and
Debbie Harry .
[7]
[8] He wrote the critically acclaimed artist's book
Agrippa (a book of the dead) in 1992 before[
citation needed ] co-authoring
The Difference Engine , an alternate history novel that would become a central work of the
steampunk genre.
[9] He then spent an unfruitful period as a Hollywood
screenwriter , with few of his projects seeing the light of day and those that did being critically unsuccessful.
[10]
Although he had largely abandoned short fiction by the mid-1990s, Gibson returned to writing novels, completing his second trilogy, the
Bridge trilogy at the close of the millennium. After writing two episodes of the television series
The X-Files around this time, Gibson was featured as the subject of a documentary film,
No Maps for These Territories , in 2000.
[11] Gibson has been invited to address the
National Academy of Sciences (1993) and the
Directors Guild of America (2003) and has had a plethora of articles published in outlets such as
Wired ,
Rolling Stone and
The New York Times . His third trilogy of novels,
Pattern Recognition (2003),
Spook Country (2007) and
Zero History (2010) have put Gibson's work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time.
[12]
Novels
Gibson discussing
Spook Country (2007) on August 8, 2007, while touring in support of the novel.
Short fiction
Collected
"
Burning Chrome " (1986, preface by Bruce Sterling):
"
Johnny Mnemonic " (May 1981,
Omni )
"
The Gernsback Continuum " (1981, Universe 11 )
"
Fragments of a Hologram Rose " (Summer 1977, UnEarth 3 )
"
The Belonging Kind ", with
John Shirley (1981, Shadows 4 )
"
Hinterlands " (October 1981, Omni )
"
Red Star, Winter Orbit ", with Bruce Sterling (July 1983, Omni )
"
New Rose Hotel " (July 1984, Omni )
"
The Winter Market " (November 1985, Vancouver )
"
Dogfight ", with
Michael Swanwick (July 1985, Omni )
"
Burning Chrome " (July 1982, Omni )
Uncollected
The
San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge , a fictional
squatted version of which formed the setting for Gibson's short story "
Skinner's Room " (1990). He would later revisit the setting in his
Bridge trilogy of novels.
"Tokyo Collage" in SF Eye , August 1988.
"Tokyo Suite" in
Penthouse (Japanese edition) 1988/5-7. Early version of “Tokyo Collage”, translated by Hisashi Kuroma.
[13]
"The Smoke" in Mississippi Review 47/48 , 1988.
"Hippy Hat Brain Parasite" in
Shiner, Lewis , Modern Stories No. 1, April 1983. Republished in
Rucker, Rudy (1989). Semiotext[[E]] Sf . Brooklyn:
Autonomedia . pp. 109–122.
ISBN
978-0-936756-43-1 .
"The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders" (unpublished)
[14]
"Doing Television" in
Dorsey, Candas Jane (1990). Tesseracts 3 . Victoria: Porcépic. pp. 392–394.
ISBN
978-0-88878-290-8 .
OCLC
24504625 .
"Darwin" (a slightly longer version of "Doing Television") in
The Face , March 1990,
[15] and
Spin , April 1990, 21–23.
[6]
[16]
"
Skinner's Room " in Polledri, Paolo (1990).
Visionary San Francisco . Munich: Prestal. pp.
153–65 .
ISBN
978-3-7913-1060-2 . Republished in
McCaffery, Larry (1995).
After Yesterday's Crash . New York: Penguin Books.
ISBN
978-0-14-024085-6 .
"Academy Leader" in Benedikt, Michael (1991).
Cyberspace . Cambridge: MIT Press. pp.
27–29 .
ISBN
978-0-262-52177-2 .
"
Cyber-Claus " in
The Washington Post Book World, 1991-12-01. Republished in
Hartwell, David (1992). Christmas Stars . New York: Tor Books.
ISBN
978-0-8125-2286-0 .
"Where the Holograms Go" in Trilling, Roger (1993). Wild Palms Reader . St Martins Pr. pp. 122–23.
ISBN
978-0-312-09083-8 .
"Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" in
Garnett, David (1997).
New Worlds . Clarkston: White Wolf Pub. pp.
338–349 .
ISBN
978-1-56504-190-5 . Republished in Kelly, James (2007).
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology . San Francisco: Tachyon Publications.
ISBN
978-1-892391-53-7 .
"Dougal Discarnate" in Gartner, Zsuzsi, ed. (2010).
Darwin's Bastards . Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.
ISBN
978-1-55365-492-6 .
OCLC
436620011 .
Excerpted
Screenplays
A neck
barcode
tattoo , the sole element of Gibson's
Alien 3 script which was included in the final cut of the film.
[17]
Unrealized
Comics
William Gibson
Archangel (2016) – 5-part comic with Michael St. John Smith and Butch Guice.
[20]
William Gibson's Alien 3 (2019) – 5-part comic with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain.
[21]
Non-fiction
Articles
Nightscape of
Singapore , which Gibson characterized as "
Disneyland with the
death penalty " in a
Wired
article of the same name .
"Alfred Bester, SF and Me", Frontier crossings : A souvenir of the 45th World Science Fiction Convention, Conspiracy '87 , Robert Jackson ed., (1987)
OCLC
78913436
"
Rocket Radio " (1989),
Rolling Stone , June 15, 1989
"
Disneyland with the Death Penalty " (1993),
Wired , 1.04
"
Remembering Johnny: Notes on a Process " (1995), Wired , 3.06, June 1995.
"
The Net Is a Waste of Time...and That's Exactly What's Right About It " (1996),
The New York Times Magazine 1996-07-14: 31.
"'Virtual Lit': A Discussion" (1996) Biblion: The Bulletin of the New York Public Library , Fall 1996: 33–51.
[16]
ISSN
1064-301X
OCLC
26244071
"Jack Womak [
sic ] and the Horned Heart of Neuropa" (1997) Science Fiction Eye , Fall 1997.
ISSN
1071-3018
OCLC
22440318
"
Dead Man Sings " (1998) Forbes ASAP , 30 November 1998 supp.: 177.
ISSN
1078-9901
OCLC
173437996
"William Gibson's fiction of cyber-eternity may become a reality." (1999) HQ issue 63 : 122, March 1, 1999.
ISSN
1321-9820
OCLC
173343432
"
My Obsession " (1999), Wired , 7.01
An unshiny amateur example of
dorodango , the subject of Gibson's eponymous "Shiny Balls of Mud" article for
Tate Magazine in 2002.
"
William Gibson's Filmless Festival " (1999), Wired , 7.10
"
Steely Dan's Return " (2000) Addicted To Noise Issue 6.03, March 1, 2000
"
Will We Plug Chips Into Our Brains? " (2000)
TIME , June 19, 2000.
"
Modern boys and mobile girls " (2001),
The Observer , April 1, 2001.
"
Metrophagy " (2001)
Whole Earth Catalog , Summer 2001.
"
My Own Private Tokyo " (2001), Wired , 9.09
"
Blasted Dreams in Mr. Buk's Window " (2001),
National Post , 2001-09-20
"
Shiny Balls of Mud " (2002),
Tate Magazine , issue 1, September/October 2002.
OCLC
33825791
ISSN
1351-3737
"
The Road to Oceania " (2003),
The New York Times , 2003-06-25
"
Time Machine Cuba " (2004),
Infinite Matrix , August 8, 2004
"
God's Little Toys " (2005), Wired , 13.7
"
U2's City of Blinding Lights " (2005), Wired , 13.8
"
Sci-fi special: William Gibson " (2008),
New Scientist , issue 2682, November 12, 2008.
"
Google's Earth " (2010), The New York Times , August 31, 2010.
"
25 Years of Digital Vandalism " (2011), The New York Times , January 27, 2011.
"
William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211 " (2011), The Paris Review , June 1, 2011.
"
Life in the Meta City " (2011), Scientific American , August 19, 2011.
"
William Gibson on The Stars My Destination " (2012),
Library of America , February 23, 2012.
"
1977 " (2012), in Punk: An Aesthetic by Johan Kugelberg (editor), reproduced in The Huffington Post , September 19, 2012.
"
We Can't Know What the Future Will Bring " (2012), The Wall Street Journal , October 25, 2012.
Forewords, introductions and afterwords
—.
Shirley, John (1989). Heatseeker . Santa Cruz: Scream/Press.
ISBN
978-0-910489-26-3 .
—. Datlow, Ellen (1990). Alien Sex . New York: Dutton.
ISBN
978-0-525-24863-7 .
—.
Delany, Samuel R. (1996).
Dhalgren . Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8195-6299-9 .
—. Shirley, John (1996). City Come a-Walkin' . City: Eyeball Books.
ISBN
978-0-9642505-1-2 .
[22]
—. Kuipers, Dean (2000). Ray Gun: out of Control . London: Booth-Clibborn Editions.
ISBN
978-1-86154-040-9 .
—.
Sterling, Bruce (1997).
The Artificial Kid . Hardwired.
ISBN
978-1-888869-16-3 .
—.
Davidson, Avram (1998). The Avram Davidson Treasury . New York: Tor.
ISBN
978-0-312-86729-4 .
—.
Carter, Chris (1998). The Art of the X Files . New York: HarperPrism.
ISBN
978-0-06-105037-4 .
—.
Wachowski, Lana (2000). The Art of the Matrix . Titan Books.
ISBN
978-1-84023-173-1 .
—. Packer, Randall (2001).
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality . New York: Norton.
ISBN
978-0-393-04979-4 .
—. Wachowski, Lana (2002). The Matrix: the Shooting Script . New York: Newmarket Press.
ISBN
978-1-55704-490-7 .
—. Turner, Michael (2004).
American Whiskey Bar .
Arsenal Pulp Press .
ISBN
978-1-55152-159-6 .
—.
Gunn, Eileen (2004).
Stable Strategies and Others . San Francisco: Tachyon Publications.
ISBN
978-1-892391-18-6 .
—. Smith, Marquard (2005).
Stelarc: The Monograph . Cambridge: MIT Press.
ISBN
978-0-262-19518-8 .
—.
Borges, Jorge Luis (2007).
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings . New York: New Directions.
ISBN
978-0-8112-1699-9 .
—. Girard, Greg (2007). Phantom Shanghai . Magenta Foundation.
ISBN
978-0-9739739-1-4 .
Screen appearances
Acting appearances
Gibson at an
Amazon Fishbowl online talk show in
Seattle, Washington , 2007-08-06. Gibson is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and symposia.
Documentaries
Television appearances
Miscellanea
Count Zero shortened and
bowdlerised
[25] serialization illustrated by J. K. Potter, Isaac
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , January, February, March 1986 issues
"
Robert Longo " (1992), ArtRandom No. 71,
ISBN
978-4-7636-8531-5 .
OCLC
25843406
Agrippa (a book of the dead) (1992)—an
artist's book .
OCLC
79137074
Lyrics, vocals.
Technodon ,
Yellow Magic Orchestra . (1993)
[7]
Lyrics. "Dog Star Girl",
Debravation .
Deborah Harry . (1993)
[8]
"
Speeches on Networking and the Future ", joint address with
Bruce Sterling to the
United States National Academy of Sciences Convocation on Technology and Education on May 10, 1993.
Narration of Neuromancer for Time Warner Audio Books on 4
audio cassettes (1994)
Johnny Mnemonic: the Screenplay and the Story . New York: Ace Books. 1995.
ISBN
978-0-441-00234-4 .
"
Up the Line ", address to the
Directors Guild of America's Digital Day, Los Angeles, May 17, 2003.
References
^ Prucher, Jeff (2007).
"cyberspace" .
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction . Oxford University Press. p. 31.
ISBN
978-0-19-530567-8 .
OCLC
76074298 .
^
a
b van Bakel, Rogier (June 1995).
"Remembering Johnny: Notes on a process" .
Wired . Vol. 3, no. 6. Retrieved 2008-01-10 .
^ McCaffery, Larry (1991). Storming the Reality Studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction .
Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press .
ISBN
978-0-8223-1168-3 .
OCLC
23384573 .
^ Rapatzikou, Tatiani (2003-06-17).
"William Gibson." .
The Literary Encyclopedia . The Literary Dictionary Company. Retrieved 2007-08-27 .
^ Goldberger, Paul (1990-08-12).
"In San Francisco, A Good Idea Falls With a Thud" . Architecture View .
The New York Times . Retrieved 2007-11-06 .
^
a
b S. Page.
"William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy" . Archived from
the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2007-10-17 .
^
a
b
"Yellow Magic Orchestra – Technodon" .
Discogs . 26 May 1993. Retrieved 2012-07-17 .
^
a
b Pener, Degen (1993-08-22).
"EGOS & IDS; Deborah Harry Is Low-Key – And Unblond" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 2007-11-07 .
^ Bebergal, Peter (2007-08-26).
"The age of steampunk" .
The Boston Globe . p. 3. Retrieved 2007-10-14 .
^
Johnny Mnemonic at
Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 2008-01-15.
^ Mark Neale (director), William Gibson (subject) (2000).
No Maps for These Territories (Documentary). Docurama.
^ Hirst, Christopher (2003-05-10).
"Books: Hardbacks" .
The Independent . Archived from
the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2007-07-08 .
^ Tatsumi, Takayuki, ed. (2015). "William Gibson: an Annotated Bio-Bibliography". A Reader's Guide to William Gibson (in Japanese). Sairyusha. p. iii.
ISBN
978-4-7791-2121-0 .
^
Maddox, Tom (1989).
"Maddox on Gibson" . Archived from
the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2007-10-26 . This story originally appeared in a Canadian 'zine, Virus 23 , 1989.
^
a
b
Brown, Charles N. ; William G. Contento (2004-07-10).
"Stories, Listed by Author" . The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984–1998) .
Locus . Archived from
the original on 2007-03-04. Retrieved 2007-10-29 .
^
a
b
"Bibliography of Works By William Gibson" . Centre for Language and Literature . Athabasca University. 2007-05-17. Retrieved 2007-09-09 .
^ Gibson, William (2003-09-01).
"Alien 3 Again" . Archived from
the original on 2006-12-30. Retrieved 2008-01-20 .
^
a
b
"Tom Maddox Unreal-Time Chat" . Shop Talk . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-13 .
^
a
b
c Gibson, William (May 1994).
"William Gibson Interviewed by Giuseppe Salza" (Interview). Interviewed by Giuseppe Salza. Cannes. Retrieved 2007-10-28 .
^
William Gibson on his time-bending trip into comics with IDW's new Archangel miniseries
^
Alien 3: How Dark Horse's New Comic Changes the Original Movie
^ Gibson, William (1996-03-31).
"Foreword to City Come a-walkin' " . Archived from
the original on 2007-06-26. Retrieved 2007-05-01 .
^ Gibson, William (2006-07-22).
"Where The Holograms Go" . Archived from
the original on 2007-11-21. Retrieved 2007-11-26 .
^
"Independent Exposure Films: Mon Amour Mon Parapluie" . Mon Amour Mon Parapluie . Archived from
the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2007-10-26 .
^
"Shameless Self-Promotion: The Letter Column" . Ansible 45 . February 1986.
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