William Gibson Knihy

Pokračovanie série, ktorá zmenila dejiny vedeckej fantastiky! Nájomný samuraj, kunsthistorička zameraná na moderné umenie 20. storočia a mladý neskúsený Bobby Newmark, ktorý sníva o tom, že sa stane slávnym hackerom prezývaným Nulák, sa veľmi nezvyčajným spôsobom pohybujú po podivných cestách od Sonorskej púšte cez parížske predmestia po tajomné objekty na obežnej dráhe, až sa napokon každý po svojom stretnú so skupinou elektronických bohov, ktorí sa odrazu zjavili v kyberpriestore a riadia všetko od umeleckých diel cez biologické úpravy detí až po zmeny vo svetovej ekonomike.

Základné dielo kyberpunku, klasika sci-fi a jedna z najsilnejších vízií budúcnosti. Matrix je svet vo svete, globálny konsenzus, prelud, vyjadrenie každého jedného dátového bajtu v kyberpriestore. Henry Dorsett Case, hyperpriestorový kovboj a zlodej dát, podstúpi vďaka záhadnému undergroundovému klientovi výmenu kľúčových orgánov po tom, čo ho pomstychtiví zákazníci z podsvetia dali zmrzačiť, aby sa už nikdy nevedel pripojiť na matrix. Tajomný klient chce, aby sa Case zapojil do poslednej, smrteľne nebezpečnej akcie, ktorá prebieha v pozostatkoch bývalého sveta, na obežnej dráhe, no najmä v matrixe –kyberpriestore, ktorý sa nachádza všade a nikde.

Best-known for his seminal sf novel NEUROMANCER, William Gibson is also a master of short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, BURNING CHROME collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, co-Cyberpunk and editor of the seminal anthology MIRRORSHADES. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best. Contains 'Johnny Mnemonic' (filmed starring Keanu Reeves) and title story 'Burning Chrome' - both nominated for the Nebula Award - as well as the Hugo-and-Nebula-nominated stories 'Dogfight' and 'The Winter Market'.

Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic. Although All Tomorrow's Parties includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book.--Craig E. Engler

2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...

Pattern Recognition is William Gibson's best book since he rewrote all the rules in Neuromancer.--Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century.--The Washington Post Book World The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to- coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now... Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet--a world-renowned coolhunter who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet--footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father --a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001--Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing--and compelling--as the twenty-first century promises to be..

San Francisco, 2017. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump's political ambitions were thwarted. London, 22nd century. Decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 per cent of humanity. A shadowy start-up hires a young woman named Verity to test a new product- a 'cross-platform personal avatar' that was developed by the military as a form of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, characters in the distant future are using technological time travel to interfere with the election unfolding in 2017. . .

A mystery centered on a virtual-reality marriage. The groom is Rez, the star of a rock band, while the bride is Rei Toei, the beautiful and entirely virtual pop singer adored by all Japan. Why would a man want to marry a woman who does not exist? Flesh and blood Chia McKenzie from Seattle, who loves Rez, flies to Tokyo to find out.

Temná vize počítačových kovbojů, biologicky zdokonalených vojáků štěstí a hi-techových jedinců vyřazených z normálního života získala Williamu Gibsonovi nebývalou chválu. Obsahem této sbírky jsou jeho nejlepší povídky a příběhy z oblasti fikce. Jsou kritické, nemilosrdné, vášnivé. Mají Gibsonův nezaměnitelný punc.

The “cool and scary”(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer. spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.” country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... “A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”—The Washington Post Book World