William Gibson

thornyd recommended this 1 year, 8 months ago

Great fiction that reveals the connections between inner thoughts and emotions and society

nfactor13 recommended this 1 year, 9 months ago

A brilliant writer who has certain shortcomings and predictabilities in his writing, but he gets credit for so much else. Hugely responsible for the cyberpunk movement in science fiction, influencing a broad range of movies, literature, and games. His writing is extremely detailed, and he has a tremendous sense of pop culture and how technology becomes its own character in a story.

archetype recommended this 1 year, 10 months ago

follow the futurists!

loomi recommended this 2 years ago

...Enjoying the wry humor of _ Spook Country _ It is full of marketing characters and over the top settings. Yes the details are very imaginitive. My favorite of his short stories is _ Burning Chrome _ because of how much I loathed the Chrome secondary character after Gibson's brief descriptions of her.

hackedtobits recommended this 2 years, 1 month ago

I was just getting into computers when I read Neuromancer. I quickly devoured the rest of Gibson's books and short stories. I even follow Gibson on Twitter.

geekwithsoul recommended this 2 years, 8 months ago

Engrossing writing that enables readers to suspend disbelief and get insights into the future that awaits us.

shazzmack recommended this 2 years, 9 months ago

Agree with both comments above. Great insight into pop culture, trends, branding, technology, society, etc. And he's a faithful reader of Boing Boing.
Cons: No more black-clad protagonists wandering down wind-swept, dusty L.A. streets. Please.

mixtil recommended this 3 years, 9 months ago

All his books are great, esp. for nerds as they're full of inconsequential detail.
Cons: He allways has improbable happy endings.

jon recommended this 4 years, 2 months ago

His book Pattern Recognition is the first of his I've read. Great thriller delving less into technologies and instead into the relationships people form over those technologies. Great stuff.