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Hugo Award winning authors
Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, J. K. Rowling, Philip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury, Poul Anderson, William Gibson, Larry Niven, Frank Herbert, James Blish, Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Robert
ISBN/EAN: 9781156841518
Umbreit-Nr.: 3341715
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 204 S.
Format in cm: 1.1 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 27.06.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 203. Chapters: Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, J. K. Rowling, Philip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury, Poul Anderson, William Gibson, Larry Niven, Frank Herbert, James Blish, Brian Aldiss, Vernor Vinge, James Tiptree, Jr., Frederik Pohl, Bruce Sterling, Harry Turtledove, Theodore Sturgeon, Roger Zelazny, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Stephen Baxter, Kim Stanley Robinson, J. Michael Straczynski, Jack Vance, Greg Egan, Philip José Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Greg Bear, Robert Bloch, John Brunner, Hal Clement, Anne McCaffrey, Lois McMaster Bujold, Murray Leinster, Joanna Russ, Damon Knight, George R. R. Martin, Charles Sheffield, R. A. Lafferty, Alfred Bester, George Alec Effinger, Dan Simmons, David Brin, John Varley, Joss Whedon, Michael Chabon, Geoffrey A. Landis, Eric Frank Russell, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Alan Moore, Arthur C. Clarke, Clifford D. Simak, Steven Moffat, Samuel R. Delany, Orson Scott Card, Robert J. Sawyer, Octavia E. Butler, Ronald D. Moore, Jack Williamson, Connie Willis, Mike Resnick, Susanna Clarke, China Miéville, C. J. Cherryh, David Gerrold, Robert Silverberg, Ian McDonald, Jane Espenson, Joe Haldeman, Robert Reed, Elizabeth Bear, David Langford, Charles Stross, Timothy Zahn, Peter S. Beagle, Avram Davidson, Spider Robinson, Vonda N. McIntyre, Lucius Shepard, Robert Charles Wilson, James Patrick Kelly, Michael Swanwick, Gordon R. Dickson, Ted Chiang, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Alexei Panshin, Nancy Kress, Joan D. Vinge, Will McIntosh, Kelly Link, Suzy McKee Charnas, Barry B. Longyear, Kate Wilhelm, Allen Steele, Daniel Keyes, Mark Clifton, Maureen F. McHugh, Tim Pratt, Terry Bisson, Jeanne Robinson, The Barbie Murders, Stephen Jones, David D. Levine, Janet Kagan, Bill Johnson, Julie Phillips, Frank Riley. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans - a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre. Although much of Gibson's reputation has remained associated with Neuromancer, his work has continued to evolve. After expandi.