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Stories of the year
News Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist The comments were made after Frank Abagnale, the one-time confidence trickster turned security expert (who also inspired the film Catch Me If You Can), said the scheme should be scrapped if the... [14 Dec 2007]
Stories of the Month - August 2007
News Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist When silicon.com's news editor Steve Ranger caught up with sci-fi writer William Gibson, readers got a unique insight into the place of technology in today's world. [31 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.08.07
Round-Up Moving on - but still keeping with the literary theme - sci-fi guru William Gibson has been chatting to silicon.com in an exclusive interview. Gibson's latest book - Spook Country - is set in the recent past rather than a Bladerunner-style future... [10 Aug 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 10.08.07
Round-Up Podcast The outing of Fake Steve Jobs, the deepening staffing crisis, low job satisfaction for techies, mega-expense bills and William Gibson's sci-fi are all up for discussion on this week's podcast. Host Sylvia Carr is joined in the studio by Ben Howard... [10 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: William Gibson fan talk
Comment Making the journalist's mistake of being a fan (I think I'm allowed to on this occasion), I'm excited because today we've published what I can say with complete bias is a cracking interview with sci-fi legend William Gibson. [06 Aug 2007]
William Gibson: Tech drives all change
News Even renowned science fiction author William Gibson has given up guessing what the future looks like - for now at least. William Gibson talks tech. In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Gibson said: "The trouble is there are enough crazy... [06 Aug 2007]
Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist
Comment Science fiction novelist William Gibson has been exploring the relationship between technology and society ever since he burst on to the literary scene with his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer in 1984. William Gibson may not have predicted mobile... [06 Aug 2007]
Photos of the month - July 2007
Photo Book publisher Penguin joined the Second Life party this month by running a series of events in the virtual world for the launch of a new novel by William Gibson. A British Airways 747 taxis past Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5, which will become... [27 Jul 2007]
Photos: Penguin flies into Second Life
Photo In the next few weeks publishing house Penguin is running a series of events around the launch of the new novel by the father of cyberpunk, William Gibson - such as placing containers like the one above in-world. [20 Jul 2007]
Technology gives couriers the edge on the street
News William Gibson, for example, made his Johnny Mnemonic someone who could deliver data too precious to send over the public internet - by downloading it to a chip in his head. Couriers have held a strange fascination for sci-fi writers. [16 May 2006]
Criminal IT: On Google and googling
Comment And perhaps, since the father of cyber-punk himself, William Gibson, has used the term as a generic in his latest book, Pattern Recognition, those lawyers might have something of an uphill battle on their hands. [21 Sep 2005]
