William Gibson Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Blue Ant Books
Pattern Recognition | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spook Country | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zero History | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Bridge Books
Virtual Light | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Idoru | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Tomorrow's Parties | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Peripheral Books
Publication Order of Sprawl Books
Neuromancer | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Count Zero | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mona Lisa Overdrive | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Difference Engine | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Johnny Mnemonic | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Dogfight (in Omni) | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Winter Market | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Pat Cadigan Short Stories/Novellas
My Brother's Keeper | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fool to Believe (in Asimov's) | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dispatches from the Revolution (in Asimov's) | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
True Faces (in F&SF) | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in the Promised Land | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chalk | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Show | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
AI and the Trolley Problem | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay by William Gibson | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook Books
The Art of X2 | (1750) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rush Hour: Lights, Camera, Action! | (1787) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Windtalkers | (1796) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dances With Wolves | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City of Joy | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bram Stoker's Dracula | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Age of Innocence | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wyatt Earp | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wyatt Earp's West | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Panther | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Showgirls | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Proprietor | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seven Years in Tibet | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Men in Black | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saving Private Ryan | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild, Wild, West | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cradle Will Rock | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gladiator | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Titus | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Art of the Matrix | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Moulin Rouge! | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Planet of the Apes | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ali | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
E.T. | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frida | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch Me If You Can | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chicago | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gods and Generals | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hulk | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Brothers | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Van Helsing | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vanity Fair | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ray | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kingdom of Heaven | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Art of X-Men The Last Stand | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Good Year | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mummy | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gandhi | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Art of Monsters vs. Aliens | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anonymous: William Shakespeare Revealed | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War Horse | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Art and Making of Hercules | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 18 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tesseracts | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Omni Magazine, July 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mississippi Review 47 / 48 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Semiotext SF | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ascent of Wonder | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Worlds 1 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hackers | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Cyberpunk | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year\'s Best Science Fiction | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cyberpunk | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
William Gibson is a science fiction best known for his pioneering work in the genre of cyberpunk. He made his debut as a novelist in 1984 with the release of Neuromancer which is considered to be one of his best work. The book is the only novel in history to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.
Gibson was born in South Carolina and he spent most of his childhood in Wytheville, Virginia. In high school, he became interested in the Beat generation and writers like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs who would have a big effect on him. He was not a great student and left high school before graduating. Then when the Vietnam war draft began, he had no interest in going. A young William would say at his draft hearing that he intended to sample every drug in existence. He then made his way to Canada to avoid the draft, but he was never actually drafted so was not considered a deserter.
He would spend the rest of the 60s in Toronto before meeting a woman from Vancouver. The two would move to Vancouver where Gibson enrolled at the University of British Columbia and earning his bachelor’s degree. At UBC, Gibson attended a course on science fiction which lead to him writing a short story in the genre. After graduation he stopped writing until he met punk musician and author John Shirley who encouraged him to take his writing more seriously. He began writing and selling short stories about the near future that were heavily influenced by cybernetics and cyberspace. These ideas would ultimately lead to Nueromancer, his first novel.
Some of his work has been adapted in movies. “Johnny Mnemonic”, a movie that came out in 1995, is loosely based off a story that is set in Gibson’s “Sprawl” trilogy universe. Not long after, another adaptation came out called “New Rose Hotel”, that is set in the same universe.
The Peripheral is the first book in the Jackpot trilogy. Flynne Fisher lives on a country road in America where jobs are hard to come by outside of illegal drug manufacturing. Her brother Burton lives off of money from the Veterans Administration after neurological damage in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. While Will Neterton makes his home in London, seventy years later, when things are pretty good for the haves and terrible for the have-nots. Wilf considers himself to be a romantic misfit and in a society where reaching into the past is easy, he has options. Burton takes a job moonlighting online for a game prototype that looks like a weirder version of London. Flynne takes over shifts for him from time to time and that’s where she meets Wilf. This will change everything for both of them.
Neuromancer is the book that put Gibson on the map and it is the first book in the Sprawl trilogy. The story follows Case who was once the sharpest data thief in the matrix until he crossed the wrong people and was left crippled. Case was banished from cyberspace until a new employer offers him once last chance at a powerful artificial intelligence. Case will team up with a dead man and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, in an adventure that changed an entire genre.
The Sprawl trilogy continues with Count Zero. A corporate mercenary is awakened in a reconstructed body by the Hosaka Corporation for a mission more dangerous than the one that took him out in the first place. He is sent to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected out. Of course, he’s not the only one interested in it and some of the others who want it aren’t even remotely human.
Virtual Light is the first book in the Bridge trilogy. The book takes place in 2005 in NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. In Los Angeles, Berry is a former rent-a-cop now working as a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a pickpocket who steal a pair of sunglasses that turn out to be anything but ordinary. The things that you can see through the glasses can either make you rich or get you killed. This puts Berry and Chevette on the run through the digitalized heart of DatAmerica.
The Bridge trilogy continues with Idoru. In 21st century Tokyo, Colin Laney is looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information who knows how to find the dangerous bits which makes him useful to a certain kind of client. Chia McKenzie is in Tokyo on a rescue mission to help her idol, the singer Rez of the band Lo/Rez. The fan club believes he may be in trouble so they send Chia to check it out. The rumor that has brought her there is Rez declaring that he will marry Rei Toei, the idoru adored by all of Japan. There are powerful interests surrounding her which will put many lives at risk.
Pattern Recognition is the first book in the Blue Ant series. Cayce Pollard is a prophet of a new generation thanks to her ability to predict the hottest trends. She makes her way to London to evaluate a corporation’s logo redesign when she is offered another job. This job is to find the creator of some obscure, enigmatic video clips that are generating major buzz. In order to find them, Cayce will travel through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror; and the point in which the three will converge.
The Blue Ant series continues with Spook Country. It follows a journalist named Hollis Henry on assignment for a magazine that doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo does exist as a producer, but his day job is as a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. Bobby keeps going by never sleeping on the same place twice and never meeting anyone. Finding Bobby is the investigation that Hollis has been sent on.
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