Burning Chrome by William Gibson Requirements: .MP3 reader, 146 MBOverview: With a hard-edged, gloomy passion and intensely realized detail, these stories are a synthesis of pop culture, high tech and advanced literary technique. In them Gibson charts the unchecked rise of multinational corporations and the addictively transcendent potential of cyberspace. Since they were first published […]
Distrust That Particular Flavor by William GibsonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 156 mbOverview: William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And as his stories bled into reality, he became one of the first to report on the real-world consequences of cyberspace’s growth and development. Now, with the dust settling on the first internet revolution, […]
Agency by William Gibson (Jackpot 2)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 210 MBOverview: San Francisco, 2017. Clinton’s in the White House, Brexit never happened – and Verity Jane’s got herself a new job. They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer,’ and she’s just been hired to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice… Only Eunice has other ideas. Pretty soon, Verity realises […]
Spook Country by William Gibson (Blue Ant 2)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 257 mbOverview: 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, an ex-military man named Brown is tracking […]
Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson (#1-3)Requirements: .ePUB Reader, 2MBOverview: The Sprawl trilogy is William Gibson’s first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).The novels are all set in the same fictional future, and are subtly interlinked by shared characters and themes (which are not always readily apparent). […]
