William Gibson

Free Will Astrology: March 28-April 3, 2012

CYBERPUNKS

Pop. 1280 marches through Saint Vitus Bar

Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

The main virtual hall​ Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virt ... More >>

What We Talk About When We Talk About SOPA

SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, is the latest congressional move to put an end to the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. The basic idea of SOPA -- now considered in the House of Representatives -- and its Senate analog, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, purportedly aims at ... More >>

Fall Arts: Art Picks

SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act, is the latest congressional move to put an end to the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. The basic idea of SOPA -- now considered in the House of Representatives -- and its Senate analog, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, purportedly aims at ... More >>

There Is a Steampunk, Submarine-Inspired Apartment for Sale in Chelsea

Richard Caplan for Core​We love real estate. Especially WTF/How Is This Even Possible? real estate, like New York City apartments with indoor pools and swings and slides that one can use to travel from room to room. And apartments inspired by submarines! Such an apartment is currently for sale ... More >>

iPad Arrives.

​The first release of the Apple iPad went on sale at 9 this morning to the long lines of customers who were camped out in front of Apple Stores and Best Buys waiting to buy them. The hand-held 9.5" touchscreen computers, which can access WiFi but not yet 3G (those go on sale later this month) ... More >>

Equivocation and The Tempest Show a Weak Will; The Miracle Worker Works No Wonders

​The first release of the Apple iPad went on sale at 9 this morning to the long lines of customers who were camped out in front of Apple Stores and Best Buys waiting to buy them. The hand-held 9.5" touchscreen computers, which can access WiFi but not yet 3G (those go on sale later this month) ... More >>

Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #7: Guilty Pleasures Without Guilt

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Previous reasons here, here, and here. ​If you had told us, at the beginning of this awful decade, that intelligent people would one day be writing essays -- serial essays, yet -- on reality ... More >>

The Badly Behaved Wizards of Lev Grossman's The Magicians

Forget the snogging! This novel's hero prefers sex and recreational drug use.

J. G. Ballard: 1930-2009

The British author J.G. Ballard, who published more than thirty books of fiction, short stories, and essays over nearly five decades, died yesterday. His pessimistic and prescient meditations on technology and modernity would be hugely influential for everyone from David Cronenberg to Joy Division t ... More >>

Stoppardian Banter Meets William Gibson Mindfuck in A New Theory of Vision

The British author J.G. Ballard, who published more than thirty books of fiction, short stories, and essays over nearly five decades, died yesterday. His pessimistic and prescient meditations on technology and modernity would be hugely influential for everyone from David Cronenberg to Joy Division t ... More >>

The Clipse's Pusha T Endorses A.P.C. Jeans

The British author J.G. Ballard, who published more than thirty books of fiction, short stories, and essays over nearly five decades, died yesterday. His pessimistic and prescient meditations on technology and modernity would be hugely influential for everyone from David Cronenberg to Joy Division t ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Ice-T and Richard Hell on the Election, They Might Be Giants, Craig Finn, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and More

The British author J.G. Ballard, who published more than thirty books of fiction, short stories, and essays over nearly five decades, died yesterday. His pessimistic and prescient meditations on technology and modernity would be hugely influential for everyone from David Cronenberg to Joy Division t ... More >>

Chowhound Dave Cook's Last Road to Singapore

For his last meal, this man dreams of food courts of the Far East

Valerie Harper Is Not Jewish. You'd Never Know it Here.

Golda's Balcony

Horoscope

Golda's Balcony

The Anxiety Maze

Magic capitalism and crazy Russian typewriters in William Gibson's new Spook Country

From Mongolia or Outer Space?

Idiosyncratic sci-fi films Sans Soleil and La Jetée hit DVD. Plus, good directors gone bad and bad directors gone worse.

London Fog

17 years after Akira, Otomo evokes 19th-century England with steam balls and Satanic mills

Ain't It Cool?

Lit prof Alan Liu: 'I went to sleep one day a cultural critic and woke the next metamorphosed into a data processor'

FCS reaches critical mass, yielding No Rest for the Brave

Lit prof Alan Liu: 'I went to sleep one day a cultural critic and woke the next metamorphosed into a data processor'

Future Shock

In his bedroom, punching riddims into cheap software, a 19-year-old does what he gotta

Dennis Lim's Top Ten

In his bedroom, punching riddims into cheap software, a 19-year-old does what he gotta

Sightlines

In his bedroom, punching riddims into cheap software, a 19-year-old does what he gotta

Listings

In his bedroom, punching riddims into cheap software, a 19-year-old does what he gotta

The Three Kings of Music Video Unveil Their Weapons of Choice

In his bedroom, punching riddims into cheap software, a 19-year-old does what he gotta

Personal Bestings

Wherever Broadway's fault lies, dear Brutus, this week it is definitely not in our stars

NY Mirror

Wherever Broadway's fault lies, dear Brutus, this week it is definitely not in our stars

The Rise of the Machines

The Future Is Today, in Olivier Assayas's Plugged-In Virtual Porn Cyberthriller

Forever Bummer

Paul West's Novel Blends 9-11, Philosophy, and Nigella

Shadows in the Cave

Paul West's Novel Blends 9-11, Philosophy, and Nigella

Micro Softies

Spanking the Mouse

Music

Spanking the Mouse

Plays With Possessive Titles

A Golda Meir Bio; Some Magical-Realist Orphans

How Soon Is Now?

William Gibson's Present Tense

Think Different

William Gibson's Present Tense

Iran to You

Ritual and Avant-Garde at the Lincoln Center Festival

The Light Stuff

A Rough Guide to the Flash and Trash of Summer Reading

Fear of a Mongrel Planet

A Rough Guide to the Flash and Trash of Summer Reading

Blurred Visionaries

Ye Olde Cyber Prophets Age by the Nanosecond

Vital Signs

New Media Savants Check the Pulse of Silicon Alley

Future Shock

Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

Flop House

Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

War of the Wired

Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

Bio Hazard

Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

Oh Gods

Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

Digitizing Megan's Law

Sci-fi Novelist Samuel R. Delany Imagines New York City Circa 3000

Ultimate Ultima

An Internet Game for 9000 Players

Richard Belzer, Ice-T Jack Up the Election

Ah, those talking heads-the TV yabberers, not the guys singing about buildings and food. We've grown a little...