Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) by William Gibson is a SF novel and the final instalment of the Sprawl trilogy, after Neuromancer and Count Zero, in what it’s considered the canon of the cyberpunk literature. Dark and engaging as the other…
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Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, and the first in the cyberpunk genre. Also the first book to win the so-called SF “triple crown” — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the prestigious…
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Altered Carbon (2002) is a novel by Richard Morgan. Set in a future four hundred years from now, on a few exoplanets in a dystopian human-colonised universe, where rich people are able to get replacement bodies to make them almost…
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