编辑Patrick A. Smith从各种媒体和来源--印刷和在线期刊和粉丝杂志、学术期刊、报纸、博客和播客--中提取了本集的23篇访谈。许多话题包括吉布森在美国南部的童年和他在加拿大的成年早期,以及在欧洲的旅行;他对传统SF模式的不满,"网络空间 "的起源,以及改变我们对技术的思考方式的意外后果(对作者和社会);写作过程和读者在一种新小说中的作用。吉布森(生于1948年)对品牌和时尚、名人文化、社交网络、后911世界、技术的未来用途以及解决老问题的新方法所产生的孤立和疏离进行了探讨。对话中还对他的小说、短篇小说和非小说进行了概述。
After reading Neuromancer for the first time, literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, ""I knew I had seen the future of [science fiction] (and maybe of literature in general), and its name was William Gibson."" McCaffery was right. Gibson's 1984 debut is one of the most celebrated SF novels of the last half century, and in a career spanning more than three decades, the American Canadian science fiction writer and reluctant futurist responsible for introducing ""cyberspace"" into the lexicon has published nine other novels.
Editor Patrick A. Smith draws the twenty-three interviews in this collection from a variety of media and sources - print and online journals and fanzines, academic journals, newspapers, blogs, and podcasts. Myriad topics include Gibson's childhood in the American South and his early adulthood in Canada, with travel in Europe; his chafing against the traditional SF mold, the origins of ""cyberspace,"" and the unintended consequences (for both the author and society) of changing the way we think about technology; the writing process and the reader's role in a new kind of fiction. Gibson (b. 1948) takes on branding and fashion, celebrity culture, social networking, the post-9/11 world, future uses of technology, and the isolation and alienation engendered by new ways of solving old problems. The conversations also provide overviews of his novels, short fiction, and nonfiction.
Patrick A. Smith, Havana, Florida, USA is professor of English at Bainbridge State College in Bainbridge, Georgia, USA. His previous books and edited collections include "The true bones of my life": Essays on the Fiction of Jim Harrison; Tim O'Brien: A Critical Companion; and Conversations with Tim O'Brien (published by University Press of Mississippi), among others.
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