William Gibson Books

Verity Jane begins as a consultant brought into a start-up that feels halfway between a tech company and a think tank. Her job seems simple—test a prototype of a new AI assistant named Eunice. But from the moment Eunice speaks, the tone changes. She’s not an application waiting for commands; she’s a...

From Agency

Parallel to Verity’s present runs another thread—a team observing her timeline from what I call a 'post-apocalyptic tomorrow.' These observers, descendants of the world introduced in *The Peripheral*, monitor her decisions as if she were part of a vast historical experiment. Wilf Netherton and other...

From Agency

Johnny isn’t a hero in gleaming armor—he’s a data courier, carrying encrypted information directly in his brain. He lives in a time when memory itself has become a marketplace, and information is worth killing for. What fascinates me about Johnny is his reliance on something deeply human—forgetting....

From Burning Chrome

This story arose from my fascination with the optimism of early 20th-century American futurism—the chrome rockets, the gleaming cities, the fantasies of eternal progress. I invented a photographer haunted by visions of that radiant future, a hallucination shaped by forgotten advertisements. His worl...

From Burning Chrome

I shaped Turner as a man living in constant kinetic peril—a mercenary who defines himself through motion and contracts. His vocabulary is violence and adaptation. When he’s hired to extract Christopher Mitchell from the multinational Maas Biolabs, his mission seems almost routine: corporate extracti...

From Count Zero

Bobby Newmark calls himself Count Zero, and it’s partly arrogance, partly a teenager’s desperate need to belong in the hacker mythology that’s grown around cyberspace. He isn’t ready for what he finds. When he launches a stolen ICE breaker, hoping to make his mark, he encounters a presence that near...

From Count Zero