William Gibson bibliography

• Sprawl trilogy:
  1. Neuromancer (1984)
  2. Count Zero (1986)
  3. Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)
• The Difference Engine (1990; with Bruce Sterling)
• Bridge trilogy:
  1. Virtual Light (1993)
  2. Idoru (1996)
  3. All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)

• Blue Ant trilogy:
  1. Pattern Recognition (2003)
  2. Spook Country (2007)
  3. Zero History (2010)
• Jackpot trilogy:
  1. The Peripheral (2014)
  2. Agency (2020)
  3. Jackpot (TBD)

Collected

• "Burning Chrome" (1986, preface by Bruce Sterling):
  • "Johnny Mnemonic" (May 1981, Omni)
  • "The Gernsback Continuum" (1981, Universe 11)
  • "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (Summer 1977, UnEarth 3)
  • "The Belonging Kind", with John Shirley (1981, Shadows 4)
  • "Hinterlands" (October 1981, Omni)
  • "Red Star, Winter Orbit", with Bruce Sterling (July 1983, Omni)
  • "New Rose Hotel" (July 1984, Omni)
  • "The Winter Market" (November 1985, Vancouver)
  • "Dogfight", with Michael Swanwick (July 1985, Omni)
  • "Burning Chrome" (July 1982, Omni)

Uncollected

• "Tokyo Collage" in SF Eye, August 1988.
• "Tokyo Suite" in Penthouse (Japanese edition) 1988/5-7. Early version of “Tokyo Collage”, translated by Hisashi Kuroma.^[13]
• "The Smoke" in Mississippi Review 47/48, 1988.
• "Hippy Hat Brain Parasite" in Shiner, Lewis, Modern Stories No. 1, April 1983. Republished in Rucker, Rudy (1989). Semiotext[[E]] Sf. Brooklyn: Autonomedia. pp. 109–122. ISBN 978-0-936756-43-1.
• "The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders" (unpublished)^[14]
• "Doing Television" in Dorsey, Candas Jane (1990). Tesseracts 3. Victoria: Porcépic. pp. 392–394. ISBN 978-0-88878-290-8. OCLC 24504625.
• "Darwin" (a slightly longer version of "Doing Television") in The Face, March 1990,^[15] and Spin, April 1990, 21–23.^[6][16]
• "Skinner's Room" in Polledri, Paolo (1990). Visionary San Francisco. Munich: Prestal. pp. 153–65. ISBN 978-3-7913-1060-2. Republished in McCaffery, Larry (1995). After Yesterday's Crash. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-024085-6.
• "Academy Leader" in Benedikt, Michael (1991). Cyberspace. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 27–29. ISBN 978-0-262-52177-2.
• "Cyber-Claus" in The Washington Post Book World, 1991-12-01. Republished in Hartwell, David (1992). Christmas Stars. New York: Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-8125-2286-0.
• "Where the Holograms Go" in Trilling, Roger (1993). Wild Palms Reader. St Martins Pr. pp. 122–23. ISBN 978-0-312-09083-8.
• "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" in Garnett, David (1997). New Worlds. Clarkston: White Wolf Pub. pp. 338–349. ISBN 978-1-56504-190-5. Republished in Kelly, James (2007). Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. San Francisco: Tachyon Publications. ISBN 978-1-892391-53-7.
• "Dougal Discarnate" in Gartner, Zsuzsi, ed. (2010). Darwin's Bastards. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 978-1-55365-492-6. OCLC 436620011.

Excerpted

• Mona Lisa Overdrive:
  • "The Silver Walks" in High Times, November 1987^[15]
  • "Kumi in the Smoke" ("Kemuri no naka no Kumi") in the Japanese magazine Hanatsubaki, issue 453, March 1988. Translated by Hisashi Kuroma.
• The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling):
  • "The Angel of Goliad" in Interzone issue 40, 1990
• Idoru:
  • "Lo Rez Skyline" in Rolling Stone issue 735, May 30, 1996
• The Peripheral:
  • "Death Cookie / Easy Ice" in Sterling, Bruce (2014). Twelve Tomorrows. Technology Review, Inc.

• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• The X-Files:
  • "Kill Switch" (1998; with Tom Maddox)^[18]
  • "First Person Shooter" (2000; with Tom Maddox)^[18]

Unrealized

• Burning Chrome – adaptation of "Burning Chrome" (1982)^[19]
• Neuro-Hotel^[19]
• Alien 3 (late 1980s)^[19]

• William Gibson Archangel (2016) – 5-part comic with Michael St. John Smith and Butch Guice.^[20]
• William Gibson's Alien 3 (2019) – 5-part comic with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain.^[21]

• Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

Articles

• "Alfred Bester, SF and Me", Frontier crossings : A souvenir of the 45th World Science Fiction Convention, Conspiracy '87, Robert Jackson ed., (1987) OCLC 78913436
• "Rocket Radio" (1989), Rolling Stone, June 15, 1989
• "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" (1993), Wired, 1.04
• "Remembering Johnny: Notes on a Process" (1995), Wired, 3.06, June 1995.
• "The Net Is a Waste of Time...and That's Exactly What's Right About It" (1996), The New York Times Magazine 1996-07-14: 31.
• "'Virtual Lit': A Discussion" (1996) Biblion: The Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Fall 1996: 33–51.^[16] ISSN 1064-301X OCLC 26244071
• "Jack Womak [sic] and the Horned Heart of Neuropa" (1997) Science Fiction Eye, Fall 1997. ISSN 1071-3018 OCLC 22440318
• "Dead Man Sings" (1998) Forbes ASAP, 30 November 1998 supp.: 177. ISSN 1078-9901 OCLC 173437996
• "William Gibson's fiction of cyber-eternity may become a reality." (1999) HQ issue 63 : 122, March 1, 1999. ISSN 1321-9820 OCLC 173343432
• "My Obsession" (1999), Wired, 7.01

• "William Gibson's Filmless Festival" (1999), Wired, 7.10
• "Steely Dan's Return" (2000) Addicted To Noise Issue 6.03, March 1, 2000
• "Will We Plug Chips Into Our Brains?" (2000) TIME, June 19, 2000.
• "Modern boys and mobile girls" (2001), The Observer, April 1, 2001.
• "Metrophagy" (2001) Whole Earth Catalog, Summer 2001.
• "My Own Private Tokyo" (2001), Wired, 9.09
• "Blasted Dreams in Mr. Buk's Window" (2001), National Post, 2001-09-20
• "Shiny Balls of Mud" (2002), Tate Magazine, issue 1, September/October 2002. OCLC 33825791 ISSN 1351-3737
• "The Road to Oceania" (2003), The New York Times, 2003-06-25
• "Time Machine Cuba" (2004), Infinite Matrix, August 8, 2004
• "God's Little Toys" (2005), Wired, 13.7
• "U2's City of Blinding Lights" (2005), Wired, 13.8
• "Sci-fi special: William Gibson" (2008), New Scientist, issue 2682, November 12, 2008.
• "Google's Earth" (2010), The New York Times, August 31, 2010.
• "25 Years of Digital Vandalism" (2011), The New York Times, January 27, 2011.
• "William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211" (2011), The Paris Review, June 1, 2011.
• "Life in the Meta City" (2011), Scientific American, August 19, 2011.
• "William Gibson on The Stars My Destination" (2012), Library of America, February 23, 2012.
• "1977" (2012), in Punk: An Aesthetic by Johan Kugelberg (editor), reproduced in The Huffington Post, September 19, 2012.
• "We Can't Know What the Future Will Bring" (2012), The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2012.

Forewords, introductions and afterwords

•  —. Shirley, John (1989). Heatseeker. Santa Cruz: Scream/Press. ISBN 978-0-910489-26-3.
•  —. Datlow, Ellen (1990). Alien Sex. New York: Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-24863-7.
•  —. Delany, Samuel R. (1996). Dhalgren. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6299-9.
•  —. Shirley, John (1996). City Come a-Walkin'. City: Eyeball Books. ISBN 978-0-9642505-1-2.^[22]
•  —. Kuipers, Dean (2000). Ray Gun: out of Control. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions. ISBN 978-1-86154-040-9.
•  —. Sterling, Bruce (1997). The Artificial Kid. Hardwired. ISBN 978-1-888869-16-3.
•  —. Davidson, Avram (1998). The Avram Davidson Treasury. New York: Tor. ISBN 978-0-312-86729-4.
•  —. Carter, Chris (1998). The Art of the X Files. New York: HarperPrism. ISBN 978-0-06-105037-4.
•  —. Wachowski, Lana (2000). The Art of the Matrix. Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-84023-173-1.
•  —. Packer, Randall (2001). Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-04979-4.
•  —. Wachowski, Lana (2002). The Matrix: the Shooting Script. New York: Newmarket Press. ISBN 978-1-55704-490-7.
•  —. Turner, Michael (2004). American Whiskey Bar. Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 978-1-55152-159-6.
•  —. Gunn, Eileen (2004). Stable Strategies and Others. San Francisco: Tachyon Publications. ISBN 978-1-892391-18-6.
•  —. Smith, Marquard (2005). Stelarc: The Monograph. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19518-8.
•  —. Borges, Jorge Luis (2007). Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings. New York: New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-1699-9.
•  —. Girard, Greg (2007). Phantom Shanghai. Magenta Foundation. ISBN 978-0-9739739-1-4.

Acting appearances

• Wild Palms (1993)^[23]
• Mon amour mon parapluie (2002)^[24]
• "First Person Shooter", The X-Files (2000)

Documentaries

• Yorkville: Hippie haven – Hippie Society: The Youth Rebellion (1967)
• Cyberpunk (1990)
• No Maps for These Territories (2000)
• Cyberman (2001)

Television appearances

• Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993)
• Making of Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• The X-Files Movie Special (1998)
• "The Screen Savers", February 5, 2003. (2003)
• Bestseller samtalen (2003)
• Webnation, episode 1.14. (2007)

• Count Zero shortened and bowdlerised^[25] serialization illustrated by J. K. Potter, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January, February, March 1986 issues
• "Robert Longo" (1992), ArtRandom No. 71, ISBN 978-4-7636-8531-5. OCLC 25843406
• Agrippa (a book of the dead) (1992)—an artist's book. OCLC 79137074
• Lyrics, vocals. Technodon, Yellow Magic Orchestra. (1993)^[7]
• Lyrics. "Dog Star Girl", Debravation. Deborah Harry. (1993)^[8]
• "Speeches on Networking and the Future", joint address with Bruce Sterling to the United States National Academy of Sciences Convocation on Technology and Education on May 10, 1993.
• Narration of Neuromancer for Time Warner Audio Books on 4 audio cassettes (1994)
• Johnny Mnemonic: the Screenplay and the Story. New York: Ace Books. 1995. ISBN 978-0-441-00234-4.
• "Up the Line", address to the Directors Guild of America's Digital Day, Los Angeles, May 17, 2003.

• William Gibson at IMDb
• William Gibson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Cyberpunk's biography and links
• Resources on William Gibson from the Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans
• William Gibson Aleph An extensive fan site