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William Gibson

William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer known for his speculative fiction, particularly in the genres of cyberpunk and steampunk. He introduced the term “cyberspace” in 1982 through his short story Burning Chrome. His most recognized work is his first novel, Neuromancer, which further developed and popularized the idea of cyberspace. To evade the draft during the Vietnam War, Gibson moved to Canada, where he became a full-time author. Despite expectations that he would embrace the latest technology, Gibson claims that he is more interested in “how people behave around” computers than the machines themselves. He made his novel debut in 1984 with Neuromancer, although he had been writing short stories since 1977. Below is a chronological list of William Gibson’s published works.

William Gibson became a published novelist in 1971 with the novel Universe 1 (By: Terry Carr). Below is a list of William Gibson's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Blue Ant Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Pattern Recognition (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Spook Country (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Zero History (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Bridge Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Virtual Light (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Idoru (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All Tomorrow's Parties (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of The Peripheral Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Peripheral (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Agency (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Sprawl Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Neuromancer (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Count Zero (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Difference Engine (With: Bruce Sterling) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Plays Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay by William Gibson (With: Pat Cadigan) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Dogfight (in Omni) (With: Michael Swanwick) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Winter Market (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Burning Chrome (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Routledge Approaches to History Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life (By: Martin L. Davies) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Narrative Projections of a Black British History (By: Eva Ulrike Pirker) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice (By: Berber Bevernage) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Integrity and Historical Research (By: Tony Gibbons,Emily Sutherland) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience (By: Peter Icke) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity (By: Paolo Pombeni) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Fiction of History (By: Alexander Lyon Macfie) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism (By: Rolf Torstendahl) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Material of World History (By: David Churchill,Tina Mai Chen) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future (By: Egl? Rindzevi?i?t?,Jenny Andersson) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne (By: Michael Kimaid) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past (By: Beverley C Southgate) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies (By: Melanie Ilič) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention (By: Jaume Aurell) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance (By: Jay Winter,Alexandre Dessingue) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History (By: Anton Froeyman) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science (By: Martin L. Davies) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand (By: Vladimir Petrović) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography (By: Tor Egil Førland) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School (By: Robert Leroux) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past (By: Kalle Pihlainen) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universal History and the Making of the Global (By: Hall Bjørnstad,Helge Jordheim,Anne Regent-Susini) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money (By: Bin Yang) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Personalist Philosophy of History (By: Bennett Gilbert) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons (By: Andreas Leutzsch) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History (By: Lawrence Abrams,Kaleb Knoblauch) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Teleology and Modernity (With: Dan O'Brien,Marius Turda) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian (By: Katherine J. Lewis,Alexander von Lünen,Benjamin Litherland,Pat Cullum) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Aesthetics of History (By: Alun Munslow) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History (By: Silvia Cavicchioli,Luigi Provero) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values (By: Martin L Davies) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In Praise of Historical Anthropology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism (By: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa,Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach (By: Ida Nijenhuis,Marijke Van Faassen,Ronald Sluijter,Joris Gijsenbergh,Wim de Jong) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History (By: Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Africa, Empire and World Disorder (By: A G Hopkins) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
History in a Post-Truth World (By: Marius Gudonis,Benjamin T. Jones) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Primacy of Method in Historical Research (By: Jonas Ahlskog) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Archives and Human Rights (By: Jens Boel,Perrine Canavaggio,Antonio González Quintana) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History (By: David Carr) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments (By: Jörn Rüsen) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison (By: Niels F May,Thomas Maissen) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand (By: Sophie Scott-Brown,Malcolm Allbrook) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation (By: Melissa-Ellen Dowling) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
How to Write About the Holocaust (By: Theodor Pelekanidis) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Politics of Time in China and Japan (By: Viren Murthy) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Universe Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Universe 1 (By: Terry Carr) (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 2 (By: Terry Carr) (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 3 (By: Terry Carr) (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 4 (By: Terry Carr) (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 5 (By: Terry Carr) (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 6 (By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) (1976) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 7 (By: Terry Carr) (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 8 (By: Terry Carr) (1978) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 9 (By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) (1979) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 10 (By: Terry Carr) (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 11 (With: Kim Stanley Robinson,Michael Swanwick,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr) (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 12 (By: Terry Carr) (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 13 (By: Kim Stanley Robinson,Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 14 (By: Terry Carr) (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 15 (By: Terry Carr) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 16 (By: Terry Carr) (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Universe 17 (By: Terry Carr) (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Archangel (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Audible Originals Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Alien III: An Audible Original Drama (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Marvel Graphic Novel Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Star Slammers (By: Walter Simonson) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ax (By: Ernie Colón) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Punisher/Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday's Web (By: Larry Stroman,D.G. Chichester,Mark Farmer) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Universe 11 (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nebula Awards 18 (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tesseracts (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mirrorshades (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mississippi Review 47 / 48 (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alien Sex (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Semiotext SF (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Storming the Reality Studio (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Christmas Stars (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ascent of Wonder (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
New Worlds 1 (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hackers (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rewired (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cyberpunk (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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