Further Reading
- Bukatman, Scott, "Gibson's Typewriter," in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, edited by Mark Dery, pp. 71-89. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994. (Evaluates the significance of the history of the typewriter to Gibson's novel Neuromancer.)
- Burger, Patrick R., "Patterns of Destruction," Books in Canada 32, no. 5 (Summer 2003): 27-28. (Burger lauds Pattern Recognition, calling Gibson a "subversive minimalist.")
- Gehr, Richard, "Here Today," Village Voice 37 (29 December 1992): 93. (A review of Gibson's experimental multimedia text Agrippa: A Book of the Dead.)
- Gibson, William, and Bruce Sterling, Daniel Fischlin, Veronica Hollinger, and Andrew Taylor, "‘The Charisma Leak’: A Conversation with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling," Science-Fiction Studies 19, no. 1 (1992): 1-16. (Gibson discusses the genre of science fiction with Sterling and several other interviewers.)
- Harrison, M. John, "Here Come the Style Pirates," Times Literary Supplement, no. 4722 (1 October 1993): 21. (Harrison is highly critical of Gibson's Virtual Light, asserting that the story is unrealistic and the characters are not well developed.)
- Maddox, Tom, "Cobra, She Said: An Interim Report on the Fiction of William Gibson," Fantasy Review 9, no. 4 (April 1986): 46–48. (Surveys defining characteristics of Gibson's fiction.)
- Miller, Keith, "Faxing in the Future," Times Literary Supplement, no. 5037 (15 October 1999): 25. (Miller asserts that, while Gibson's vision of the future in All Tomorrow's Parties rings true, the "grace and resonance" of his ideas are undermined by the pulp-fiction elements of his writing.)
- Poole, Steven, "William Gibson: Tomorrow's Man," Guardian (3 May 2003): 20. (Provides an overview of Gibson's literary career and his impact on science fiction, with discussion of his novel Pattern Recognition.)
- Rirdan, Danny, "The Works of William Gibson," Foundation, no. 43 (Summer 1988): 36–46. (Offers perspective on Gibson's work, asserting "Gibson's world is a visualization of what is already here.")
- Siivonen, Timo, "Cyborgs and Generic Oxymorons: The Body and Technology in William Gibson's Cyberspace Trilogy," Science-Fiction Studies 23, no. 2 (July 1996): 227-44. (Investigates the relationship between technology and the human body in Gibson's cyberspace trilogy.)
- Stockton, Sharon, "‘The Self Regained’: Cyberpunk's Retreat to the Imperium," Contemporary Literature 36, no. 4 (Winter 1995): 588–612. (Discusses notions of identity and self within the cyberpunk genre.)
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