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William Gibson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Author of Neuromancer, The Peripheral, Agency… I’m also @greatdismal.bsky.social

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Book Cover for: Child of God, Cormac McCarthy

Child of God

Cormac McCarthy
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

@Mandate33 @mdbell79 @allegra_hyde 3) “fiddlepeg and listened with a wrinkled face.” Cormac McCarthy, Child Of God

Paperback, 1993

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

RT @openculture: The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear https://t.co/3nW6PimQ4L https://t.co/4El2sA8F…

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The White Album, Joan Didion

The White Album

Joan Didion
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

RT @michikokakutani: My 1979 interview with Joan Didion in which she talks about “The White Album,” growing up in California, and how she b…

Paperback, 2009

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Teleportation Accident, Ned Beauman

The Teleportation Accident

Ned Beauman
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

Anything by Ned Beauman. From The Teleportation Accident, his first, to Venomous Lumpsucker, his latest. https://t.co/J9d1icM5vN

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Book Cover for: Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant

Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

RT @WindCruel: I been thinkin about this section in Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism about William Gibson's Pattern Recognition a lot lately…

Paperback, 2011

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, Herbert Asbury

The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

Herbert Asbury
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

Just found a copy of Asbury’s The Gangs Of New York in the tiny free library in front of a Kits condo. Read Borge’s exquisite introduction while waiting for breakfast. Man, did he ever know how to be a fan.

Paperback, 2008

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

Laura Spinney
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

RT @jr_carpenter: Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the world (2017) — pretty darned elucidating on how…

Paperback, 2018

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City, Iain Sinclair

The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City

Iain Sinclair
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

“My sense was that London, my home for fifty years, was being centrifugally challenged to the point of obliteration.” —Iain Sinclair, The Last London, 2017

Paperback, 2019

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Unsophisticated Arts, Barbara Jones

The Unsophisticated Arts

Barbara Jones
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

5) to permanent deification in wealthy drawing rooms and museums.)”. — Barbara Jones, The Unsophisticated Arts, 1951

Hardcover, 2013

$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman

Venomous Lumpsucker

Ned Beauman
William GibsonWilliam Gibson

Anything by Ned Beauman. From The Teleportation Accident, his first, to Venomous Lumpsucker, his latest. https://t.co/J9d1icM5vN

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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