rekordowe-miejsca: Virtual Light

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Virtual Light is a 1993 novel by the American-Canadian writer William Gibson. First published by Bantam Books, it is the first volume in Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Set in a near-future California, the novel takes place after an earthquake has damaged the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and turned it into an improvised settlement known as the Bridge. The novel follows Chevette Washington, a bicycle messenger who steals a pair of virtual light glasses without realizing that they contain valuable concealed data, and Berry Rydell, a former police officer who becomes drawn into the attempt to recover them. Their intersecting pursuit brings together private security interests, violent intermediari…

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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. Gibson's early short fiction is recognized as cyberpunk's finest work, effectively renovating the science fiction genre which had been hitherto considered widely insignificant. 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, as well as writ…

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Indiana Jones is an American media franchise owned by Lucasfilm consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels. The franchise centers on the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., a fictional professor of archaeology. Jones is portrayed by Harrison Ford in all five of the films. The film series was created by George Lucas and began in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was followed in 1984 by a prequel, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. A sequel, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, was released in 1989, followed by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. A fifth film, Indiana Jones and the Dia…

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10. Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy

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BOOK REVIEW: The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (Bantam Books, New York, 1991)

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The Future’s Overrated: How History and Ahistoricity Collide in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy. In 1988, Gibson “asserted his interest in the how’s and why’s of memory, the ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily it’s subject to revision” (qtd. in McCaffery 224). While this statement is a reflection on his appropriation of human memory in the Sprawl trilogy, it is also a useful standpoint from which to assess the interplay between history and memory in the Bridge trilogy. In my view, this trilogy is primarily concerned with the implications of postmodernization for historical perception. Moreover, it serves to explore how the proliferation of the spectacle has significant effect…

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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) 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…

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The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; pinyin: Sān tǐ; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese hard science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars orbiting one another, a representative example of the three-body problem in orbital mechanics. The story was originally serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006 before it was published as a standalone book in 2008. In 2006, it received the Galaxy Award for Chinese science fiction. In 2012, it was described as one of China's most success…

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Idoru is a 1996 science fiction novel by William Gibson, published in the United States by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It is the second novel in Gibson's Bridge trilogy, following Virtual Light and preceding All Tomorrow's Parties. Set mainly in a near-future Tokyo rebuilt after a major earthquake, Idoru follows two converging plotlines. Colin Laney, a former data analyst with an unusual ability to detect significant patterns in information, is hired to investigate Rez, one half of the rock duo Lo/Rez, after Rez announces his intention to marry Rei Toei, a virtual Japanese celebrity. Chia Pet McKenzie, a teenage fan from Seattle, travels to Tokyo to learn whether the rumor is true and becomes caug…

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All Tomorrow's Parties is a 1999 novel by William Gibson and the third and final novel in the Bridge Trilogy. Set in a near-future San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo, the novel brings together several continuing characters from the earlier Bridge books, including Berry Rydell, Chevette Washington, and Colin Laney. Its plot centers on Laney's attempt to prevent the public-relations magnate Cody Harwood from exploiting an approaching "nodal point" of historical change focused on the settlement built on the Bay Bridge. Critics have generally treated the novel as part of Gibson's turn away from the distant futures of his early cyberpunk fiction and toward a more immediate near-future mode concern…

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"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.