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“E comunque Gentry era proprio strano, pensò Slick, sentendo scricchiolare le ginocchia mentre si alzava in piedi ed estraeva l'unità di controllo del Giudice dalla tasca della giacca. Gentry era convinto che il ciberspazio avesse una Forma, una configurazione globale e totale. Non era certo l'idea più da picchiati che Slick avesse mai sentito, però Gentry era ossessionato dalla convinzione che la Forma avesse un'importanza capitale. La comprensione della Forma rappresentava il suo Graal.”

William Gibson libro Monna Lisa Cyberpunk

Origine: Monna Lisa Cyberpunk, p. 68

“Misero un segugio esplosivo sulle tracce di Turner a Nuova Delhi, sintonizzato sui suoi feromoni e sul colore dei capelli. Lo raggiunse in una strada chiamata Chandni Chauk, e si lanciò verso la sua BMW noleggiata, fra una selva di gambe nude e brune e ruote di tassì a pedale. Il nucleo era costituito da un chilogrammo di esogene ricristallizzato e TNT in scaglie.
Turner non lo vide arrivare. L'ultima cosa che vide dell'India fu la facciata rosa di un posto che si chiamava Khush-Oil Hotel.”

William Gibson libro Giù nel ciberspazio

Count Zero

“C'è una bambina che sta male nella mia casa. […] Sento che il dado è stato gettato, per il suo vestito insanguinato. Molte sono le mani che scavano la sua fossa questa notte, e anche le tue. I nemici pregano per la tua morte, mercenario. Pregano fino a sudare. Le loro preghiere sono un fiume di febbre.”

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da Giù nel Cyberspazio

“Il futuro della fantascienza? Ci viviamo dentro. […] Se c'è una cosa che ho imparato dalla fantascienza, è che ogni momento presente è al contempo il passato di qualcun altro e il futuro di qualcun altro. (da una intervista per New Scientist) Data?”

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“Nessuno scrive davvero del futuro. Tutto quello che ci rimane quando fingiamo di scrivere del futuro è il momento in cui stiamo scrivendo. Ecco perché ogni futuro immaginato diventa obsoleto come un gelato che si scioglie mentre uscite dalla gelateria all'angolo. Esso acquisirà immediatamente una patina pittoresca, fa parte di ciò che comporta l'immaginazione del futuro.”

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dall' intervista http://www.wired.it/news/archivio/2010-09/11/zero-history,-william-gibson-parla-della-paranoia-e-del-fantastico-potere-di-twitter.aspx a Wired, 10 settembre 2010

“È stata ferita» disse Kumiko, guardando la cicatrice.
Sally abbassò lo sguardo. «Già.»
«Perché non se l'è fatta togliere?»
«A volte fa bene tenere a mente certe cose.»
«Di essere stati feriti?»
«Di essere stati stupidi.”

William Gibson libro Monna Lisa Cyberpunk

Origine: Monna Lisa Cyberpunk, p. 134

“Coretti no sabía vestirse. La ropa era un lenguaje y Coretti era un tartamudo de la indumentaria.”

William Gibson libro The Belonging Kind

The Belonging Kind

William Gibson: Frasi in inglese

“I think of Neuromancer as being, in a good sense, an adolescent book. It's a young man's book. It was written very young-man's-book. It was written by a man who was not very young, when he wrote it, but who was sufficiently immature.”

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No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.”

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William Gibson

Interview in Paris Review Summer 2011 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

“Somewhere, very close, the laugh that wasn't laughter.
He never saw Molly again.”

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William Gibson libro Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“Stim was a medium she ordinarily avoided, something in her personality conflicting with the required degree of passivity.”

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William Gibson libro Giù nel ciberspazio

On Marly Krushkhova, in Ch. 23
Count Zero (1986)

“Drugs were absolutely central to that experience, but they weren't essential. I only know that in retrospect. At the time I'm sure I would have said that they were.”

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No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you'd break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.”

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William Gibson libro Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“It's a world where there aren't families. It's the world of a young person going out into the wilderness, cities, and sort of in a way creating a family. You know, it's kind of like… it's not that it's a "goth book," but it's kind of rather the same stuff that makes kids be goths.”

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About Neuromancer
No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic container without breaking stride. When he arrived at the counter at the end of corridor, he changed his ticket.”

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William Gibson libro Giù nel ciberspazio

Origine: Count Zero (1986), Ch. 1, Turner begins to recall his past.

“The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures of his skull with x-rays of short-circuited sexual energy. His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. His bones, beneath the hazy envelope of flesh, were chromed and polished, the joints lubricated with a film of silicone. Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding…The anger was expanding, relentless, exponential, riding out behind the betaphenethylamine rush like a carrier wave, a seismic fluid, rich and corrosive.”

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William Gibson libro Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“"Hey," he'd said, "it's me. Case."
The old eyes regarding him out of their dark webs of wrinkled flesh.
"Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."
The bartender shrugged. "I came back."
The man shook his massive, stubbled head. "Night City is not a place one returns to, artiste," he said, swabbing the bar in front of Case with a filthy cloth, the pink manipulator whining.”

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William Gibson libro Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it… I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.”

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Referring to the Internet
No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“The cutting of Sense/Net's ice took a total of nine days. "I said a week," Armitage said, unable to conceal his satisfaction when Case showed him his plan for the run. "You took your own good time." "Balls," Case said, smiling at the screen. "That's good work, Armitage." "Yes," Armitage admitted, "but don't let it go to your head. Compared to what you'll eventually be up against, this is an arcade toy."”

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William Gibson libro Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“So it's entirely fair to say, and I've said it before, that the way Neuromancer-the-novel "looks" was influenced in large part by some of the artwork I saw in 'Heavy Metal'. I assume that this must also be true of John Carpenter's 'Escape from New York', Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'", and all other artefacts of the style sometimes dubbed 'cyberpunk.'”

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William Gibson libro Neuromancer

Those French guys, they got their end in early. <br class="br">William Gibson http://brmovie.com/FAQs/BR_FAQ_BR_Influence.htm <br class="br">Neuromancer (1984), About Neuromancer

“Honey,” Jammer said, “you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.”

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William Gibson libro Giù nel ciberspazio

Spoken to Jackie, Ch. 28
Count Zero (1986)

“Don' 'stand you, mon, but we mus' move by Jah Love, each one”

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William Gibson libro Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.”

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William Gibson libro All Tomorrow's Parties

Origine: All Tomorrow's Parties‎ (2003), Ch. 4 : Formal Absences of Precious Things, p. 21