The shattered realities of William Gibson 

I've read the Sprawl trilogy at least 10 times. It's by far my favorite universe... so gritty, yucky and awe-inspiring. I love your love of it!

I love the sprawl trilogy. I had to re-read Neuromancer just so I wouldn't forget the story. At first Gibson is hard to read because of his vast use of vocabulary and heavy descriptions of the world he is creating. You would think it would get annoying but you can't help but create everything in your head while reading this strange technological future that feels like a lived in world. If you wanna good idea on what you are getting into, just remember that these books inspired the Matrix and Ghost in the shell.

Imagination must be active - a collaboration between the author and the reader. It cannot be passive, or it ceases to be imagination, and becomes something quite different.

Well articulated

Thank you so much for giving Gibson’s prose the attention it deserves. I don’t know on which rereading of Neuromancer that I started to notice the passages in blank verse. I don’t know any better prose stylist working today.

After reading all of Richard K Morgan’s stuff, and really enjoying the way in which he turned the idea of the hero upside down in the Land Fit for Heroes trilogy, and the Blade Runneresque reality of the Takeski Kovacs’ novels, I was really looking for something new to read. It’s been around for a while, but Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy was new to me, and exactly what I was looking for. The reality he creates is so immersive that one can see the electronic spaces that Case traverses when he jacks into cyberspace. It’s gritty, everything is shabby and disintegrating, yet it’s also vibrant and alive! I’ve read Neuromancer 4 times, and I’m working my way through all of his works. The reads are difficult, but so rewarding!

Art by Nick Sullo

Hair?

INDIA! Not Istanbul!

yikes...

Kazachstan

One of the greatest prose writers of all time? C'mon, let's not blow too much smoke. He has talent, but let's face it, like Asimov, kind of overrated.