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* AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction: All sci-fi written by him (i.e. ''Literature/SprawlTrilogy'', ''Literature/BridgeTrilogy'', Literature/BigendBooks, and the [[Literature/ThePeripheral "Jackpot"]] [[Literature/Agency2020 novels]]) falls squarely in the Social camp. While Gibson does his best to research his contemporary technology, he has stated many times that he is neither interested in its nitty-gritty nor in ''predicting'' the future. Instead, his focus is on how technological progress affects the present, reflected in his imagined futures to highlight what he perceives as the most important. This focus on humanity is what gives his books a timeless quality despite the [[TechnologyMarchesOn tech in them always marching on]] and makes them time capsules of the concerns of the respective decades when they were written (''Sprawl'' in TheEighties, ''Bridge'' in TheNineties, Bigend [[TurnOfTheMillennium after 9/11]], and ''Jackpot'' in TheNewTens).
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In 2022, ''The Peripheral'' was adapted into a [[Series/ThePeripheral2022 Prime Video TV series]].
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* PermanentlyMissableContent: He attempted to invoke this trope with his book ''Agrippa: A Book of the Dead''. With the exception of two copies sent to the Library of Congress, each copy of the book was printed with ink that gradually turned invisible when exposed to light, and the accompanying floppy disk ran the program on it once and then corrupted itself - and it was copy-protected to prevent back-ups and wouldn't run if the write-protect tab was covered. Hackers being hackers, a copy of the program was eventually ripped and passed around the Internet, and social engineers snuck into the studio where Gibson was giving a one-time-only reading of the book and recorded it, distributing the transcript around the BBS circuit.
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Outside of fiction, he penned an essay that gave UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}} the enduring appellation of "[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] with the [[DeathRow Death Penalty]]".
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* CargoCult: Played with in the science-fiction short story "Hinterlands"; this time, it's humanity who are on the receiving end, and by the end of the book we're still no wiser as to how the whole thing works or why. The rule is that you must travel to a set point in space and release a radio-flare; if you do, you 'disappear' and come back after a lengthy period of time, either dead or insane, but carrying a random alien object that might be valuable.
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* CargoCult: Played with in the science-fiction short story "Hinterlands"; this time, it's humanity who are on the receiving end, and by the end of the book we're still no wiser as to how the whole thing works or why. The rule is that you must travel to a set point in space and release a radio-flare; if you do, you 'disappear' ''might'' "disappear" and come back after a lengthy period of time, either dead or insane, but possibly carrying a random alien object or information that might be valuable.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: In the short story "Dogfight", the main character wins the aerial combat video game, but in the process alienates everyone he might possibly celebrate his victory with.
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: In the short story "Johnny Mnemonic", Johnny has some sensitive data stored his head by an information broker, and the data can only be retrieved when the broker recites a password to Johnny. Said broker is noted to be a huge fan of a particular music band, to the point of having had plastic surgery to look like the band's front man. When the broker is killed and Johnny is forced to retrieve the password by other means, he's nonplussed to discover that the password is the name of the band.
* {{Yakuza}}: In "Johnny Mnemonic," the Yakuza send a vat-grown cyborg assassin to kill the main character. [[spoiler: A second one succeeds in "Neuromancer".]]
* {{Yakuza}}: In "Johnny Mnemonic," the Yakuza send a vat-grown cyborg assassin to kill the main character. [[spoiler: A second one succeeds in "Neuromancer".]]
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: In the short story "Johnny Mnemonic", Johnny has some sensitive data stored his head by an information broker, and the data can only be retrieved when the broker recites a password to Johnny. Said The broker is noted to be a huge fan of a particular music band, to the point of having had plastic surgery to look like the band's front man. When the broker is killed and Johnny is forced to retrieve the password by other means, he's nonplussed to discover that the password is the name of the band.
* {{Yakuza}}: In "Johnny Mnemonic," the Yakuza send a vat-grown cyborg assassin to kill the main character. [[spoiler:A It's revealed in ''Neuromancer'' that a second one succeeds in "Neuromancer".]]succeeded]].
* {{Yakuza}}: In "Johnny Mnemonic," the Yakuza send a vat-grown cyborg assassin to kill the main character. [[spoiler:
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He also wrote the script for the film ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' based on his short story by the same name, a couple episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'', the original ([[WhatCouldHaveBeen unused]]) screenplay for ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' and many short stories.
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He also wrote the script for the film ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' based on his short story by the same name, a couple episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'', the original ([[WhatCouldHaveBeen unused]]) screenplay for ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' and many short stories. The Creator/AbelFerrara film ''Film/NewRoseHotel'' is an adaptation of his short story of the same name.
