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Novels

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

Gibson discussing Spook Country (2007) on August 8, 2007 while touring in support of the novel.

    Blue Ant trilogy:
        Pattern Recognition (2003)
        Spook Country (2007)
        Zero History (2010)
    The Peripheral (2014)

Short fiction
Collected

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

Uncollected
The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, a fictional squatted version of which formed the setting for Gibson's short story "Skinner's Room" (1990). He would later revisit the setting in his Bridge trilogy of novels.

    "Tokyo Collage" in SF Eye, August 1988.
    "Tokyo Suite" in Penthouse (Japanese edition) 1988/5-7. Translated by Hisashi Kuroma.
    "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 0-936756-43-8.
    "The Nazi Lawn Dwarf Murders" (unpublished)[13]
    "Doing Television" in Dorsey, Candas Jane (1990). Tesseracts 3. Victoria: Porcépic. pp. 392–394. ISBN 0-88878-290-X. OCLC 24504625.
    "Darwin" (a slightly longer version of "Doing Television") in The Face, March 1990,[14] and Spin, April 1990, 21–23.[6][15]
    "Skinner's Room" in Polledri, Paolo (1990). Visionary San Francisco. Munich: Prestal. pp. 153–65. ISBN 3-7913-1060-7. Republished in McCaffery, Larry (1995). After Yesterday's Crash. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024085-3.
    "Academy Leader" in Benedikt, Michael (1991). Cyberspace. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 27–29. ISBN 0-262-52177-6.
    "Cyber-Claus" in The Washington Post Book World, 1991-12-01. Republished in Hartwell, David (1992). Christmas Stars. New York: Tor Books. ISBN 0-8125-2286-9.
    "Where the Holograms Go" in Trilling, Roger (1993). Wild Palms Reader. St Martins Pr. pp. 122–23. ISBN 0-312-09083-8.
    "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" in Garnett, David (1997). New Worlds. Clarkston: White Wolf Pub. pp. 338–349. ISBN 1-56504-190-9. 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 1-55365-492-7. OCLC 436620011.

Excerpted

    Mona Lisa Overdrive:
        "The Silver Walks" in High Times, November 1987[14]
        "Kumi in the Smoke" ("Kemuri no naka no kumi") (1988)
    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

Screenplays
A neck barcode tattoo, the sole element of Gibson's Alien 3 script which was included in the final cut of the film.[16]

    Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
    "Kill Switch", "First Person Shooter". The X-Files. (1998, 2000).[17]

Unrealized

    Burning Chrome – adaptation of "Burning Chrome" (1982)[18]
    Neuro-Hotel[18]
    Alien 3 (late 1980s)[18]

Comics

    Archangel (2016) – 5-part comic with Michael St. John Smith and Butch Guice.[19]

Non-fiction

    Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

Articles
Nightscape of Singapore, which Gibson characterized as "Disneyland with the death penalty" in a Wired article of the same name.

    "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.[15] 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

An unshiny amateur example of dorodango, the subject of Gibson's eponymous "Shiny Balls Of Mud" article for Tate Magazine in 2002.

    "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 0-910489-26-2.
     —. Datlow, Ellen (1990). Alien Sex. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-24863-3.
     —. Delany, Samuel R. (1996). Dhalgren. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6299-8.
     —. Shirley, John (1996). City Come a-Walkin'. City: Eyeball Books. ISBN 0-9642505-1-9.[20]
     —. Kuipers, Dean (2000). Ray Gun: out of Control. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions. ISBN 1-86154-040-X.
     —. Sterling, Bruce (1997). The Artificial Kid. Hardwired. ISBN 1-888869-16-X.
     —. Davidson, Avram (1998). The Avram Davidson Treasury. New York: Tor. ISBN 0-312-86729-8.
     —. Carter, Chris (1998). The Art of the X Files. New York: HarperPrism. ISBN 0-06-105037-7.
     —. Wachowski, Larry (2000). The Art of the Matrix. Titan Books. ISBN 1-84023-173-4.
     —. Packer, Randall (2001). Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-04979-5.
     —. Wachowski, Larry (2002). The Matrix: the Shooting Script. New York: Newmarket Press. ISBN 1-55704-490-2.
     —. Turner, Michael (2004). American Whiskey Bar. Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 1-55152-159-8.
     —. Gunn, Eileen (2004). Stable Strategies and Others. San Francisco: Tachyon Publications. ISBN 1-892391-18-X.
     —. Smith, Marquard (2005). Stelarc: The Monograph. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19518-6.
     —. 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.

Screen appearances
Acting appearances
Gibson at an Amazon Fishbowl online talk show in Seattle, Washington, 2007-08-06. Gibson is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and symposia.

    Wild Palms (1993)[21]
    Mon amour mon parapluie (2002)[22]
    "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)

Miscellanea

    Count Zero shortened and bowdlerised[23] serialization illustrated by J. K. Potter, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January, February, March 1986 issues
    "Robert Longo" (1992), ArtRandom No. 71, ISBN 4-7636-8531-7. 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 0-441-00234-X.
    "Up the Line", address to the Directors Guild of America's Digital Day, Los Angeles, May 17, 2003.

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