Understanding William Gibson / (Record no. 247959)
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781611176339 (hardback) |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781611176346 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC4397209 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)943824720 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
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| Classification number | PS3557.I2264 |
| Item number | Z78 2016 |
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| Classification number | 813/.54 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Miller, Gerald Alva, |
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| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Understanding William Gibson / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Gerald Alva Miller Jr. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Columbia, SC : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | The University of South Carolina Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2016] |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (168 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Understanding contemporary American literature |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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. 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. 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"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gibson, William, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1948- |
| General subdivision | Criticism and interpretation. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science fiction, American |
| General subdivision | History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cyberpunk fiction |
| General subdivision | History and criticism. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Miller, Gerald Alva. |
| Title | Understanding William Gibson. |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Columbia, SC : The University of South Carolina Press, [2016] |
| Series data for related item | Understanding contemporary American literature |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781611176339 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Understanding contemporary American literature. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4397209">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4397209</a> |
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