Russell's ebook Library
Agency
William Gibson
They call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas. Pretty soon, Verity knows that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's e...
All Tomorrow's Parties
William Gibson
Bridge [3]: A Zen assassin stalks San Francisco and the unlucky ex-cop hero from Virtual Light must assemble some very strange equipment. Further objects of desire include lovingly described knives, guns and even antique mechanical watches, as collec...
Burning Chrome
William Gibson
Nine brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time.In them Gibson charts the unchecked rise of multinational corporations and the addictively transcendent potential of cyberspace....
Count Zero
William Gibson
Sprawl [2]: In the Matrix of cyberspace, angels and voodoo zaibatsus fight it out for world domination and computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero risk their minds for fat crumbs.Turner woke up in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him. The...
The Difference Engine
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
A brilliantly inventive alternate history by the two biggest names in Cyberpunk, Gibson and Sterling, about a 19th century computer revolution arising from the invention of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine - a forerunner of today's computer based ...
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
Though best known for his fiction, William Gibson is as much in demand for his cutting-edge observations on the world we live in now.Originally printed in publications as varied as Wired, the New York Times, and the Observer, these articles and essay...
Idoru
William Gibson
Bridge [2]: Set in futuristic Tokyo, rebuilt after an earthquake, this is the story of a rock star who decides to marry a non-existent, virtual reality girl; the bemused American security consultant who has been sent to take care of him; and a teenag...
Johnny Mnemonic
William Gibson
The screenplay for the film about a smuggler of the future who uses a computer chip implanted in his brain to transfer valuable information.
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Sprawl [3]: The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.Mona’s pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she’s turned ove...
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Sprawl [1]: The Matrix: a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone. And by Case, computer c...
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Blue Ant [1]: Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire s...
The Peripheral
William Gibson
Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's keen to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Association, in com...
Spook Country
William Gibson
Blue Ant [2]: Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer. Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a mag...
Virtual Light
William Gibson
Bridge [1]: San Francisco, the nearish future; ex-cop Berry Rydell's lost one job he didn't much like and landed another he likes even less. Some sunglasses - actually high-end kit involving VR and super-sensitive data - got stolen from a courier and...
Zero History
William Gibson
Blue Ant [3]: Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. But she's broke, and Bigend never feels it's beneath him to use whatever power comes his way -- in this case, th...
