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04751aam a2200505 i 4500 001 180A6B526B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151228s2016 scu b s001 0deng 010 $a 2015043242 020 $a 1611176336 020 $a 9781611176339 035 $a (OCoLC)927379754 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d CDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3557.I2264 Z78 2016 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a BIO007000 $a BIO007000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Miller, Gerald Alva, $e author. 245 10 $a Understanding William Gibson / $c Gerald Alva Miller Jr. 246 30 $a William Gibson 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b The University of South Carolina Press, $c [2016] 300 $a 155 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Understanding contemporary American literature 520 $a "Gerald Alva Miller Jr.'s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards. Gibson's iconic novel, Neuromancer, popularized the concept of cyberspace. With his early stories and his first trilogy of novels,Gibson became the father figure for a new genre of science fiction called "cyberpunk" that brought a gritty realism to its cerebral plots involving hackers and artificial intelligences. This study situates Gibson as a major figure in both science fiction history and contemporary American fiction, and it traces how his aesthetic affected both areas of literature. 520 $9 $a Miller follows a brief biographical sketch and a survey of the works that influenced him with an examination that divides Gibson's body of work into early stories, his three major novel trilogies, and his standalone works. Miller does not confine his study to major works but instead also delves into Gibson's obscure stories, published and unpublished screenplays, major essays, and collaborations with other authors. Miller's exploration starts by connecting Gibson to the major countercultural movements that influenced him (the Beat Generation, the hippies, and the punk rock movement) while also placing him within the history of science fiction and examining how his early works reacted against contemporaneous trends in the genre. These early works also exhibit the development of his unique aesthetic that would influence science fiction and literature more generally. Next a lengthy chapter explicates his groundbreaking Sprawl Trilogy, which began with Neuromancer. 520 $9 $a Miller then traces Gibson's aesthetic transformations across his two subsequent novel trilogies that increasingly eschew distant futures either to focus on our contemporary historical moment as a kind of science fiction itself or to imagine technological singularities that might lie just around the corner. These chapters detail how Gibson's aesthetic has morphed along with social, cultural, and technological changes in the real world. The study also looks at such standalone works as his collaborative steampunk novel, his attempts at screenwriting, his major essays, and even his experimental hypertext poetry. The study concludes with a discussion of Gibson's lasting influence and a brief examination of his most recent novel, The Peripheral, which signals yet another radical change in Gibson's aesthetic"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Gibson, William, $d 1948- $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Science fiction, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Cyberpunk fiction $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Gibson, William, $d 1948- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00162670 650 7 $a Cyberpunk fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01893402 650 7 $a Science fiction, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108635 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Miller, Gerald Alva. $t Understanding William Gibson $d Columbia, SC : The University of South Carolina Press, 2016 $z 9781611176346 $w (DLC) 2015051352 830 0 $a Understanding contemporary American literature. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1337/3146568/image/lgcover.9781611176339.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200603013505.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180203014210.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=180A6B526B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search