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Brave New Words

Edit Indian Express 24 Apr 2016
The future is here. In an interview in 2004, Haruki Murakami drew a parallel between contemporary literature and video games. (Photo. Haruki Murakami/Facebook) ... Literally, it must stand out ... He elaborated that he does not play them, but ever since William Gibson wrote Neuromancer without owning a computer, we have known that experience only interferes with the imagination ... Kafka’s readers sat through operas because they had hours to spare....

System Crash Deployed on PC, Launch Trailer and Screens

Edit GamersHell 19 Apr 2016
... game inspired by Blade Runner and Neuromancer, is out now for Windows PC via Humble Bundle and is coming soon to Steam....

Technolust is the concentrated dose of cyberpunk VR has been waiting for

Edit The Verge 14 Apr 2016
... of cyberpunk fantasies, shameless fanservice to anyone who’s ever imagined visiting the Sprawl mega-city of William Gibson’s Neuromancer....

What cyberpunk was and what it will be

Edit Kill Screen 07 Apr 2016
This is a preview of an article you can read on our new website dedicated to virtual reality, Versions. /// ... Travelling through modern metropolises at night, particularly in Asia, the temptation is to dwell on how prophetic cyberpunk classics like Blade Runner (1982), Neuromancer (1984) or Akira (1982) have been (to say nothing of earlier works like the books of John Brunner) ... /// ....

10 books you should read to prepare for the VR revolution

Edit TechRadar 01 Apr 2016
From the prescient Snowcrash by the inimitable Neal Stephenson, via the cyberpunk brilliance of William Gibson's Neuromancer and with a relevant nod to the feelies in Aldous Huxley's astonishing seminal Brave New World written back in 1931, we've picked out the books and stories you should read to prepare for a VR revolution ... REAMDE Neuromancer ... Buy Neuromancer by William Gibson....

Dystopian Virtual Reality Is Finally Here

Edit The Atlantic 28 Mar 2016
A girl with a VR headset outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Damir Sagolj / Reuters. Today Oculus VR, the virtual-reality hardware company Facebook acquired for $2 billion in 2014, releases its flagship headset, the Oculus Rift ... Rift isn’t alone ... * * * ... But his notion of “cyberspace,” made popular by his 1984 novel Neuromancer, was agnostic of the form that online computer networks would take in the future, dystopian or not ... ....

When AI rules the world: what SF novels tell us about our future overlords

Edit The Guardian 18 Mar 2016
We had given AM sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless ... He could merely be ... William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy, beginning with my all-time favourite science-fiction novel Neuromancer, charts the emergence of a true AI in a near future world ... Once the mission is complete, the Neuromancer/Wintermute life-form instantly locates another AI on an alien planet, and promptly exits to be with a being that can understand it ... ....

12 huge films that will probably never get made, from The Dark Tower to Top Gun 2

Edit Digital Spy 10 Mar 2016
Development hell is real. And lots of poor, lost movies live there. Sometimes a film almost feels too big, too grand or too ambitious an undertaking to ever make it into production ... 1. The Sandman A big Hollywood name does not a movie make ... 2 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8. Neuromancer William Gibson's multi-award-winning cyberpunk novel Neuromancer was published all the way back in 1984 and has pretty much been a candidate for adaptation ever since ... 9 ... 10....

Virtual reality companies look to science fiction

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 18 Feb 2016
For good measure, Oculus named the meeting rooms at its headquarters after famous fictional versions of virtual reality, including the holodeck, the Oasis and the Matrix, from the movie of the same name and, before that, William Gibson’s “Neuromancer.” Throw a rock in Silicon Valley and you are likely to hit a software engineer who can cite how ......

Failed states and states of failure

Edit Asia Times 28 Jan 2016
And who, honestly, could have imagined the Internet, no less social media and cyberspace (unless, of course, you had read William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer 30 years ago)? Who could have dreamed that a single country’s intelligence outfits would be able to listen in onor otherwise intercept and review not just the conversations and messages of its ......

Imagine the News Headlines If the American Empire Had Trump at the Wheel

Edit Alternet 26 Jan 2016
And who, honestly, could have imagined the Internet, no less social media and cyberspace (unless, of course, you had read William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer 30 years ago)? Who could have dreamed that a single country’s intelligence outfits would be able to listen in on or otherwise intercept and review not just the conversations and messages of its ......

'We Destroyed the Cities to Save Them' and Other Future Headlines

Edit Huffington Post 25 Jan 2016
And who, honestly, could have imagined the Internet, no less social media and cyberspace (unless, of course, you had read William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer 30 years ago)? Who could have dreamed that a single country’s intelligence outfits would be able to listen in on or otherwise intercept and review not just the conversations and ......

'80s and '90s kids rejoice: 2,500 classic MS-DOS games are available online for free

Edit Toronto Sun 22 Jan 2016
What would you do if you stumbled across a massive cache of hundreds of your favourite computer games from years gone by? And learned that they were absolutely free to play, without any special hardware required? ... Castle Wolfenstein ... Neuromancer. As a huge fan of William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, I remember being entranced by this point-and-click adventure set in Gibson’s high-tech, low-life universe ... ....
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