William Gibson

The book that defined the cyberpunk movement, inspiring everything from The Matrix to Cyberpunk 2077. The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo,...

They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair. When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately expendable. When Turner wakes up in Mexico -...

The Peripheral by William Gibson invites readers into a world of drones, murder, and a time-travelling crime, marking a thrilling return to science fiction from the bestselling author of Neuromancer. Flynne Fisher resides in a near-future rural America, a place where jobs are scarce, and veterans struggle to recover from the wars. To make ends meet, she engages in some...

Trump lost. Britain remained. Wake up to another reality. They call Verity 'the app-whisperer', and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas. Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met, conceals some serious capabilities, and is profoundly paranoid—which is just as well since...

Superb, brilliant. A compulsive and deeply intelligent literary thriller - New Statesman What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror, and across the city...

A big novel, full of bold ideas. Races along like an expert thriller - GQ One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results. Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds...

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. More...

The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning 'Queen of Cyberpunk.' William Gibson's never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens reveals the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint,...

The ghost was her father's parting gift, presented by a black-clad secretary in a departure lounge at Narita... Mona is a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is turned upside down when her pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York. Overnight, she's turned into someone else. Angie Mitchell is a famous...

Alien - Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson unveils William Gibson's never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with the space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. This adaptation is written by Hugo...

Now a major new TV series with Amazon Prime Flynne Fisher lives in the rural American South, working at the local 3D printing shop, while earning much needed extra money playing VR games for rich people. One night she dons a headset and finds herself in futuristic London—a sleek and mysterious world, alluringly different from her own hardscrabble existence. But...

Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack, and 'console cowboy' who crashed and burned. His nerves were damaged and, thus cut off from the digital matrix, he slouches through life. Until he meets Molly, an augmented 'razorgirl', who offers him a deal on behalf of a shadowy man called Armitage. His nerves repaired and matrix access restored, in...

"A breath of fresh air . . . the vision is deeply imagined, very complete and controlled . . . Gibson is truly brilliant."—Washington Times magazine From a true master of science fiction comes a cyberpunk collection of short stories that show how, no matter the length, Gibson is one of the greatest writers working today. Known for his seminal...

“One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century.”—The Washington Post Book World The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now... Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet—a world-renowned “coolhunter” who predicts the hottest trends....

Best-known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is also a master of short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects ten of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, a co-Cyberpunk author and editor of the seminal anthology Mirrorshades. These brilliant, high-resolution stories showcase Gibson's characters and intensely realised worlds at his absolute...

The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreadnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot... The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William...