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Frelik, Paweł (2012). "Review of William Gibson: A Literary Companion". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 23 (3 (86)): 506–508. ISSN 0897-0521. JSTOR 24353095. Chris Cunningham - Features". directorfile.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-18 . http://web.archive.org/web/20070618212259/http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/feature.html . Retrieved 2006-11-23. Lim, Dennis (February 18, 2003). "Think Different". The Village Voice. Village Voice Media. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019 . Retrieved May 30, 2019. A shy, ungainly teenager, Gibson grew up in a monoculture he found "highly problematic", [14] consciously rejected religion and took refuge in reading science fiction as well as writers such as Burroughs and Henry Miller. [13] [17] Becoming frustrated with his poor academic performance, Gibson's mother threatened to send him to a boarding school; to her surprise, he reacted enthusiastically. [10] Unable to afford his preferred choice of Southern California, his then "chronically anxious and depressive" mother, who had remained in Wytheville since the death of her husband, sent him to Southern Arizona School for Boys in Tucson. [7] [8] [13] He resented the structure of the private boarding school but was in retrospect grateful for its forcing him to engage socially. [10] Draft-dodging, exile, and counterculture [ edit ] Gibson at a 2007 reading of Spook Country in Victoria, British Columbia. Since " The Winter Market" (1985), commissioned by Vancouver Magazine with the stipulation that it be set in the city, Gibson actively avoided using his adopted home as a setting until Spook Country. [18]

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Cast". Mon Amour Mon Parapluie. Archived from the original on June 21, 2004 . Retrieved October 26, 2007. In May 2007, reports emerged that a film was in the works, with Joseph Kahn (director of Torque) in line to direct and Milla Jovovich in the lead role. [35] In May 2010 this story was supplanted with news that Vincenzo Natali, director of Cube and Splice, had taken over directing duties and would rewrite the screenplay. [36] In March 2011, with the news that Seven Arts and GFM Films would be merging their distribution operations, it was announced that the joint venture would be purchasing the rights to Neuromancer under Vincenzo Natali's direction. [37] In August, 2012, GFM Films announced that it had begun casting for the film (with offers made to Liam Neeson and Mark Wahlberg), but no cast members have been confirmed yet. [38] In November 2013, Natali shed some light on the production situation; announcing that the script had been completed for "years", and had been written with assistance from Gibson himself. [39] In May 2015, it was reported the movie got new funding from Chinese company C2M, but Natali was no longer available for directing. [40] Roger Clarke (1993). "A 'Future Trace' on Dataveillance: The Anti-Utopian and Cyberpunk Literary Genres". Archived from the original on August 14, 2008 . Retrieved September 17, 2008. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Technodon". Discogs. May 26, 1993. Archived from the original on February 25, 2008 . Retrieved January 10, 2008. Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the third series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to exclusively feature debut novels. Given a year to complete the work, [6] Gibson undertook the actual writing out of "blind animal terror" at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was "four or five years away from". [4] After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner (1982) which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he "figured [ Neuromancer] was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I’d copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film." [7] He re-wrote the first two-thirds of the book twelve times, feared losing the reader's attention and was convinced that he would be "permanently shamed" following its publication; yet what resulted was seen as a major imaginative leap forward for a first-time novelist. [4] He added the final sentence of the novel, "He never saw Molly again", at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero (1986), a character-focused work set in the Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor. [8] Summary [ ]

Goodin, Dan (July 11, 2012). "Solve 20-year-old mystery in William Gibson's "Agrippa"; win prizes". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on July 26, 2012 . Retrieved July 24, 2012. Tatsumi, Takayuki (2006). Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3774-4. OCLC 63125607.a b Marshall, John (February 6, 2003). "William Gibson's new novel asks, is the truth stranger than science fiction today?". Books. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021 . Retrieved November 3, 2007. a b c d e f g h Fitting, Peter (July 1991). "The Lessons of Cyberpunk". In Penley, C.; Ross, A. (eds.). Technoculture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 295–315. ISBN 978-0-8166-1930-6. OCLC 22859126. [Gibson's work] has attracted an audience from outside, people who read it as a poetic evocation of life in the late eighties rather than as science fiction.

a b Gibson, William (November 12, 2008). "Sci-fi special: William Gibson". New Scientist. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008 . Retrieved November 17, 2008.The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future. Lawrence Person in his "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" (1998) identified Neuromancer as "the archetypal cyberpunk work". [39] Williams, Owen (October 28, 2013). "Vincenzo Natali Still Hopeful For Neuromancer". Empire. Archived from the original on December 12, 2013 . Retrieved February 25, 2014. McCaffery, Larry (1991). Storming the Reality Studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. . .