![]() ![]() William Gibson, born in 1948, and grew up in Appalachia. In the same review, I gave context to Gibson’s own history, but a brief summary would benefit anyone that hasn’t read that previous piece: I’ve previously explored the themes in “Burning Chrome”, including: cyberspace, multinational conglomerates, rich word salads of practical technology, anti-heroes, mistrust of authority, dystopian settings, and failed relationships. Its author, William Gibson, was also the writer of the landmark short story collection, “Burning Chrome”, where he tested out many his ideas around the developing science fiction genre of cyberpunk. The scene is from “Neuromancer,” the Ur-novel of the cyberpunk movement, published in 1984, that launched the genre. ![]() Like city lights, receding…” (Gibson, 1984) Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. “A consensual hallucination…A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Not by entering some sort of portal, but a perceptual transformation the ability to visualise cyberspace. Imagine flipping a switch on your computer and punching into a world of light, of numbers and of information. ![]()
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