All Tomorrow’s Parties (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Gibson
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The first decade of the twenty-first century
- Setting: San Francisco and Tokyo
- Principal Characters: Colin Laney, Chevette Washington, Barry Rydell, Shinya Yamazaki, Silencio, Konrad
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Music or musicians, Twenty-first century, Christianity, San Francisco, Disasters, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Television or television broadcasting, Japan or Japanese people, Computers, Tokyo
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Tokyo, Japan
The most influential American writer in the last two decades of the twentieth century was not John Updike or Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon or Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates or Stephen King. That honor belongs to William Gibson.
Born in 1948 and raised in Virginia, Gibson emigrated to Canada in 1968 and in 1972 moved to Vancouver, where he earned a B.A. in English at the University of British Columbia. His first novel, Neuromancer (1984), swept all the major science-fiction prizes and introduced the world to “cyberspace” (“the consensual hallucination that was the...
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