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.

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1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's and Sterling's unique visions - in a new and totally unexpected direction!

La machine à différences

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net & a price on his head, Newmark thinks he's only trying to get out alive. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future & sequel to Neuromancer.

Comte Zéro

Un blouson hors mode conçu par le designer inconnu d'une ligne de vêtements connue pour ne pas être célèbre. Dans un temps où tout change à chaque nouvelle collection, cette permanence en fait un objet quasiment mythique. Engagée par le tout-puissant Bigend, qui « identifie les schémas » comme un chaman le labyrinthe sémantique du monde, l'ex-rockeuse Hollis va, de Londres à Paris, mener son enquête dans l'univers de la mode et des secrets militaires. Dans la continuité d'Identification des schémas et Code Source, Gibson poursuit avec Histoire zéro son exploration des sub-cultures nées des objets et des marques, et les mythologies qu'ils engendrent.

Histoire zéro

The author of the ground-breaking science-fiction novels Neuromancer and Virtual Light returns with a fast-paced, high-density, cyber-punk thriller. As prophetic as it is exciting, Idoru takes us to 21st century Tokyo where both the promises of technology and the disasters of cyber-industrialism stand in stark contrast, where the haves and the have-nots find themselves walled apart, and where information and fame are the most valuable and dangerous currencies.When Rez, the lead singer for the rock band Lo/Rez is rumored to be engaged to an "idoru" or "idol singer" - an artificial celebrity creation of information software agents - 14-year-old Chia Pet McKenzie is sent by the band's fan club to Tokyo to uncover the facts. At the same time, Colin Laney, a data specialist for Slitscan television, uncovers and publicizes a network scandal. He flees to Tokyo to escape the network's wrath. As Chia struggles to find the truth, Colin struggles to preserve it, in a futuristic society so media-saturated that only computers hold the hope for imagination, hope and spirituality.

idoru

Consultante en design, fille d'un ponte de la sécurité américaine présumé mort le 11 septembre, Cayce Pollard est chargée de trouver le créateur de mystérieuses vidéos diffusées sur le net.

Identification des schémas

Case est un pirate de génie dont le cerveau est directement relié à un monde de données et de programmes où il évolue comme dans le réel.Un faux-pas ? Son employeur lui endommage le système nerveux et le prive de travail. Retour en grâce avec un nouveau commanditaire. Mais à qui a-t-il réellement affaire ? Ou à quoi ? Sorti en 1984, ce premier roman de William Gibson a connu un succès fulgurant et raflé tous les prix de SF.

Neuromancien

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

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece--a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future.   Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix--until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.   Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future--a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.

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