Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome. Johnny Mnemonic (1981)The Gernsback Continuum (1981)Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)The Belonging Kind (1981) with John ShirleyHinterlands (1981)Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983) with Bruce SterlingNew Rose Hotel (1984)The Winter Market (1985)Dogfight (1985) with Michael SwanwickBurning Chrome (1982)

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À travers l'histoire de Flynne Fisher, gameuse ballottée entre un futur proche, les États-Unis et le Londres post-apocalyptique, soixante-dix ans après le grand effondrement du « Jackpot », Périphériques entremêle deux futurs pour mettre en scène un récit visionnaire de l'avenir que nous fabriquons.

Périphériques

The flow of information is about to be disrupted...
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Colin Laney, sensitive to patterns of information like no one else on earth, currently resides in a cardboard box in Tokyo. His body shakes with fever dreams, but his mind roams free as always, and he knows something is about to happen. Not in Tokyo; he will not see this thing himself. Something is about to happen in San Francisco...
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The mists of San Francisco make it easy to hide, if hiding is what you want, and even at the best of times reality there seems to shift. A gray man moves elegantly through the mists, leaving bodies in his wake, so that a tide of absences alerts Laney to his presence. A boy named Silencio does not speak, but flies through webs of cyber-information in search of the one object that has seized his imagination. And Rei Toi, the Japanese Idoru, continues her study of all things human. She herself is not human, not quite, but she's working on it. And in the mists of San Francisco, at this rare moment in history, who is to say what is or is not impossible...

All tomorrow's parties

One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results. Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself. William Gibson's new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.

Pattern recognition

Roman de science-fiction (cyberpunk).Cyberartistes, trafiquants de technologies, barbouzes désoeuvrées, espions para­noïaques : une guerre du renseignement au temps des leurres informatiques !Roman d'espionnage et thriller poétique sur fond de mondialisation, de manigances et de secrets. Code source fait suite à Identification des schémas.

Code Source

Cyberartistes, trafiquants de technologies, barbouzes désoeuvrées, espions paranoïaques : une guerre du renseignement au temps des leurres informatiques ! Roman d'espionnage et thriller poétique sur fond de mondialisation, de manigances et de secrets, Code source fait suite à Identification des schémas, « l'un des premiers véritables romans du XXIe siècle », selon le Washington Post.

Code source

The book that defined the cyberpunk movement, inspiring everything from The Matrix to Cyberpunk 2077.
The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.
William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. 
More than three decades later, Gibson's text is as stylish as ever, his noir narrative still glitters like chrome in the shadows and his depictions of the rise and abuse of corporate power look more prescient every day. Part thriller, part warning, Neuromancer is a timeless classic of modern SF and one of the 20th century's most potent and compelling visions of the future. His later work, The Peripheral, has been adapted into a series by Amazon Prime, starring Chloë Grace Moretz. 
Readers are hooked on Neuromancer:
'Wow. This is a wild ride. If you liked Philip K. Dick's writing . . . if you liked Bladerunner, if you liked The Matrix . . . you will love Neuromancer' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Like nothing I have read before . . . Gibson's writing is poetry, not jargon . . . [it's] slick and jagged like a serrated knife . . . Yeah I am a big, big fan . . . a unique, important and truly amazing reading experience' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Basically a futuristic crime caper. The main character is Case, a burnt-out hacker, a cyberthief . . . Challenging? Yes. But it's electrifying once you get it . . . Neuromancer is in me like a teabag, flavouring my life, and I can't imagine what it would be like if I hadn't pressed on' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'For me it was a sci fi thriller, two of my favourite genres rolled into one. I was grabbed immediately by the characters of Cole and Molly - especially Molly with her attitude, her mirror eyes and the blades under her fingernails . . . This is a very visual book and it was easy to start choosing who would play the roles in a movie' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Neuromancer

Imaginez des ordinateurs en plein XIXe siècle, des ordinateurs composés de roues dentées, de bielles et de leviers, mus par la vapeur. Des Machines à différences, imaginées par Charles Babbage, aidé de Lady Ada Byron, la fille de Lord Byron lui-même, oui, le Premier ministre de Sa Majesté la reine Victoria. 
En 1855, l'Histoire a pris un autre cours. Les industries se développent avec frénésie. Des transports sous-terrestres sillonnent Londres en proie à la pollution, aux courses automobiles et au chômage technologique. L'Empire britannique, gouverné par les scientifiques et les industrialistes, est plus soucieux de technologie que d'aventures outre-mer. 
Edward " Leviathan " Mallory, explorateur des terres sauvages d'une Amérique du Nord divisée par les guerres, se voit remettre par Lady Ada un mystérieux paquet de cartes mécanographiques. Dès lors sa vie est en danger. 
Avec l'aide inattendue de Sybil Gerard, femme déchue, fille d'un célèbre agitateur mort sur l'échafaud, qui poussait à la destruction des Machines, et de Laurence Oliphant, diplomate ou plutôt espion de la reine, il va commencer à comprendre quel est le sens de ces cartes. Un enjeu planétaire, le contrôle de l'information...

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