William Gibson

William Gibson è un autore acclamato di origine americana e canadese, noto per i suoi significativi contributi alla narrativa speculativa, in particolare nelle sottocategorie cyberpunk e steampunk. Viene ampiamente considerato il padre del cyberpunk, avendo coniato il termine "cyberspace" nel 1982, che ha successivamente reso popolare nel suo pluripremiato romanzo d'esordio, Neuromancer. Pubblicato nel 1984, Neuromancer è diventato un bestseller e detiene il primato di essere l'unico romanzo ad aver vinto il Nebula Award, il Philip K. Dick Award e il Hugo Award.

L'opera di Gibson ha avuto un impatto profondo sulla narrativa di genere, influenzando non solo altri autori ma anche l'ambito accademico, la cybercultura e la tecnologia. I suoi romanzi, tra cui Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties e Pattern Recognition, sono stati elogiati per la loro esplorazione approfondita della tecnologia e del suo impatto sulla società. Oltre ai suoi romanzi, Gibson ha scritto articoli per importanti pubblicazioni e collaborato con artisti performativi, cineasti e musicisti.

Nonostante i suoi importanti contributi nel campo della tecnologia e della sua rappresentazione nella fiction, Gibson stesso non è particolarmente interessato alla tecnologia. Invece, è affascinato dal modo in cui le persone si comportano e sono influenzate dalla tecnologia. Questo interesse è evidente nel suo lavoro, che spesso esplora l'intersezione tra tecnologia e umanità. Lo stile di scrittura di Gibson è caratterizzato da una vivida immaginazione, personaggi complessi e trame intricate, rendendolo una figura altamente rispettata e influente nel mondo della narrativa speculativa.
Blue Ant Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Pattern Recognition 2003
2 Spook Country 2007
3 Zero History 2010
Bridge Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Virtual Light 1993
2 Idoru 1996
3 All Tomorrow's Parties 1999
The Peripheral Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Peripheral 2014
2 Agency 2020
Sprawl Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Neuromancer 1984
2 Count Zero 1986
3 Mona Lisa Overdrive 1988
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 The Difference Engine 1990
2 The Difference Engine (With: Bruce Sterling) 1990
3 Johnny Mnemonic 1995
Spettacoli teatrali
# Titolo Anno
1 Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay by William Gibson 2021
2 Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay by William Gibson (With: Pat Cadigan) 2021
Short Stories/Novellas (with Michael Swanwick)
# Titolo Anno
1 Dogfight (in Omni) 1985
2 Dogfight (in Omni) (With: Michael Swanwick) 1985
3 The Winter Market 1986
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 Burning Chrome 1986
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Distrust That Particular Flavor 2012
Marvel Graphic Novel Books (with Ernie Colón, with Jon J. Muth, with D.G. Chichester, with Tba)
# Titolo Anno
1 Ax 1988
2 Punisher/Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday's Web 1992
Routledge Approaches to History Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life (By: Martin L. Davies) 2009
2 Narrative Projections of a Black British History (By: Eva Ulrike Pirker) 2011
3 History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice (By: Berber Bevernage) 2011
4 Integrity and Historical Research (By: Tony Gibbons, Emily Sutherland) 2011
5 Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience (By: Peter Icke) 2011
6 The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity (By: Paolo Pombeni) 2013
7 The Fiction of History (By: Alexander Lyon Macfie) 2014
8 The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism (By: Rolf Torstendahl) 2014
9 The Material of World History (By: David Churchill, Tina Mai Chen) 2014
10 The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future (By: Egl? Rindzevi?i?t?, Jenny Andersson) 2015
11 Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne (By: Michael Kimaid) 2015
12 'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past (By: Beverley C Southgate) 2015
13 The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies (By: Melanie Ilič) 2015
14 Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention (By: Jaume Aurell) 2015
15 Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance (By: Jay Winter, Alexandre Dessingue) 2015
16 History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History (By: Anton Froeyman) 2015
17 How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science (By: Martin L. Davies) 2015
18 The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand (By: Vladimir Petrović) 2016
19 Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography (By: Tor Egil Førland) 2017
20 History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School (By: Robert Leroux) 2017
21 The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past (By: Kalle Pihlainen) 2017
22 Universal History and the Making of the Global (By: Hall Bjørnstad, Helge Jordheim, Anne Regent-Susini) 2018
23 Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money (By: Bin Yang) 2018
24 A Personalist Philosophy of History (By: Bennett Gilbert) 2019
25 Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons (By: Andreas Leutzsch) 2019
26 Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History (By: Lawrence Abrams, Kaleb Knoblauch) 2019
27 Teleology and Modernity (With: Dan O'Brien, Marius Turda) 2019
28 Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian (By: Katherine J. Lewis, Alexander von Lünen, Benjamin Litherland, Pat Cullum) 2019
29 The Aesthetics of History (By: Alun Munslow) 2019
30 Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History (By: Silvia Cavicchioli, Luigi Provero) 2019
31 The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values (By: Martin L Davies) 2019
32 In Praise of Historical Anthropology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism (By: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste) 2020
33 Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach (By: Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke Van Faassen, Ronald Sluijter, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong) 2020
34 Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History (By: Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia) 2020
35 Africa, Empire and World Disorder (By: A G Hopkins) 2020
36 History in a Post-Truth World (By: Marius Gudonis, Benjamin T. Jones) 2020
37 The Primacy of Method in Historical Research (By: Jonas Ahlskog) 2020
38 Archives and Human Rights (By: Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana) 2021
39 Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments (By: Jörn Rüsen) 2021
40 National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison (By: Niels F May, Thomas Maissen) 2021
41 Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand (By: Sophie Scott-Brown, Malcolm Allbrook) 2021
42 Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation (By: Melissa-Ellen Dowling) 2021
43 How to Write About the Holocaust (By: Theodor Pelekanidis) 2022
44 The Politics of Time in China and Japan (By: Viren Murthy) 2022
Aliens (Bantam) Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Predator 1987
2 Earth War 1990
3 Earth Hive 1992
4 Nightmare Asylum 1993
5 The Female War 1993
6 Genocide 1993
7 Alien Harvest 1994
8 Rogue 1995
9 The Labyrinth 1996
10 Music Of The Spears 1996
11 Female War 1997
12 Berserker 1998
13 The Complete Predator Omnibus 2018
14 Hairspray and Switchblades 2020
15 Alien: Phalanx 2020
16 Vasquez 2022
Universe Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Universe 1 (By: Terry Carr) 1971
2 Universe 2 (By: Terry Carr) 1972
3 Universe 3 (By: Terry Carr) 1973
4 Universe 4 (By: Terry Carr) 1974
5 Universe 5 (By: Terry Carr) 1974
6 Universe 6 (By: John Shirley, Terry Carr) 1976
7 Universe 7 (By: Terry Carr) 1977
8 Universe 8 (By: Terry Carr) 1978
9 Universe 9 (By: John Shirley, Terry Carr) 1979
10 Universe 10 (By: Terry Carr) 1980
11 Universe 11 (With: Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Carter Scholz, Michael Bishop, Ian Watson, Nancy Kress, Carol Emshwiller, Josephine Saxton, Terry Carr) 1981
12 Universe 12 (By: Terry Carr) 1982
13 Universe 13 (By: Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Michael Bishop, Ian Watson, Terry Carr, Bruce Sterling, Leanne Frahm, Bill Bickel) 1983
14 Universe 14 (By: Terry Carr) 1984
15 Universe 15 (By: Terry Carr) 1985
16 Universe 16 (By: Terry Carr) 1986
17 Universe 17 (By: Terry Carr) 1987
Best Science Fiction of the Year Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 1972
2 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 1973
3 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 1974
4 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 1975
5 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 1976
6 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 1977
7 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 1978
8 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 1979
9 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 1980
10 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 1981
11 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 1982
12 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983
13 Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 1984
14 Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 1984
15 Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 1986
16 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 1987
Fumetti
# Titolo Anno
1 Archangel 2017
Audible Originals Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Alien III: An Audible Original Drama 2019
Marvel Graphic Novel Books (with Ernie Colón, with D.G. Chichester)
# Titolo Anno
1 Star Slammers (By: Walter Simonson) 1983
2 Ax (By: Ernie Colón) 1988
3 Punisher/Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday's Web (By: Larry Stroman, D.G. Chichester, Mark Farmer) 1992
William Gibson Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 1972
2 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 1973
3 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 1974
4 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 1975
5 Universe 6 1976
6 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 1976
7 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 1977
8 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 1978
9 Universe 9 1979
10 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 1980
11 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 1981
12 Universe 11 1981
13 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 1982
14 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983
15 Universe 13 1983
16 The First Omni Book of Science Fiction 1983
17 Nebula Awards 18 1983
18 Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 1984
19 Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 1984
20 Tesseracts 1985
21 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection 1985
22 The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985
23 The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985
24 Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 1986
25 Mirrorshades 1986
26 The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1987
27 Mississippi Review 47 / 48 1988
28 Alien Sex 1990
29 Semiotext SF 1991
30 Storming the Reality Studio 1991
31 Christmas Stars 1992
32 The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories 1992
33 The Ascent of Wonder 1994
34 New Worlds 1 1996
35 Hackers 1996
36 The Ultimate Cyberpunk 2002
37 The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture 2002
38 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005
39 Rewired 2007
40 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010
41 The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons 2011
42 The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013
43 Cyberpunk 2019