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Visions of the future • William Gibson & James Gleick

LIVE from the NYPL - November 12, 2014. William Gibson, the master of science fiction, returns to The New York Public Library to celebrate the publication of his novel The Peripheral, and discuss visions of the future with author and science historian James Gleick, whose works include Chaos: Making a New Science, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. Media Sponsor: The Financial Times. WILLIAM GIBSON is the is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. Neuromancer was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes—the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Gibson is credited with coining the term "cyberspace," and popularizing the concept of the Internet while it was still largely unknown. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife. His most recent novel, The Peripheral, will be published in October 2014. JAMES GLEICK is the author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His first book, Chaos, was a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and a national bestseller. He collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature’s Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. His other books include the best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Faster and What Just Happened. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages.