William Gibson
1) Idoru
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Set in futuristic Tokyo, a rock star falls in love with a realistic hologram only to discover that his obsession has placed him in serious danger.
2) Cyberpunk
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Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers-serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change-exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headlong into technological unknowns....
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William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. During those nearly thirty years, though, Gibson has been sought out by widely varying publications for his insights into contemporary culture.
Wired magazine sent him to Singapore to report on one of the world's most buttoned-up states....
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This early work on James Radcliffe is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the life of an English Jacobite who became a martyr during the rebellion of 1715. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in English history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high...
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Do you enjoy a good mystery? When you see something amazing happen do you ever wish you could look past the surface event to the real reason for its occurrence? Does it ever bother you when the reason something is a success, or a failure is kept from you?
What fun is it to never get in on the mystery of how to have peace and joy? To never be told how to supercharge your life? To never understand or experience the behind-the-scenes action.
Celestial...
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Singapore/Malaya, 1892: Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth, orphaned, middle-aged and gimlet-eyed, travels to Malacca to meet a mysterious woman who claims his mother is alive, only to find a British Resident has been brutally, murdered and a Singapore police expedition has vanished in the jungle. Children are being, snatched from villages, sinister commercial syndicates are fighting over virgin resources, and a seductive vampiric pontianak...
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A Classic Comprehensive Guide for Hunting and Trapping Animals
Whether or not a hunting expedition is in the plans this year, W. Hamilton Gibson's guide to camping and trapping will give you a lesson in self-sufficiency and living simply. Building camp shelters and log huts, woodland bedding, and birch canoes are just some of the skills you can learn by reading this classic wilderness manual. Charming sketches throughout the book lend to the nostalgia...
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A classic of wood lore, this guide to making and setting traps offers timeless instruction for reconnecting with traditional hunting techniques. Author W. Hamilton Gibson, a noted naturalist and skilled artist, provides well-illustrated directions for the do-it-yourself craft of trap hunting. An ideal companion for readers who want to get back to nature, disconnect from the grid, and discover simpler hunting techniques, the book proposes relatively...
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Singapore/Malaya, 1892: When a dead American is found floating in Rochor Canal, Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth begins an investigation that quickly leads into a labyrinth of deceit and violence in the polyglot steam-cooker of turn-of-the-century Singapore. As Chinese gangs verge on open turf war and powerful commercial enterprises vie for control of the economy, a stolen statue that houses an ancient Hindu goddess becomes the object of...
10) Singapore Red
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Singapore/Malaya, 1890s: A cholera epidemic breaks out in Singapore's congested Chinatown, and Detective Inspector Hawksworth finds himself embroiled in a case that threatens to spill over into regional warfare. While the immigrant population threatens to riot, someone is smuggling powerful new American weapons into the British colony, and rumors of Chinese undead wandering the nighttime streets put even the powerful Chinese clans on edge. Explore...
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These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest. From a new short story by William Gibson in which a teen disassociated from his body haunts his neighborhood through the decades, to Douglas Coupland's balls-out...