Gibsonesque
English
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[edit]Gibsonesque (comparative more Gibsonesque, superlative most Gibsonesque)
- (music) Reminiscent of the guitars made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
- (literature) Reminiscent of the works of William Gibson (born 1948), American-Canadian novelist and essayist who popularized the science fiction concept of cyberspace.
- 2005, Gerald Gaylard, After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism, Witwatersrand University Press:
- Rather than Gibsonesque warnings of the extinction of individuality in corporate hyperspace, for instance, current African writers tentatively advance versions of virtual identity that centre around relative location in motion.
- 2011, Paul Lester, Bonkers: The Story of Dizzee Rascal, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:
- Chang even invoked American-Canadian sci-fi cyberpunk author William Gibson, talking of Dizzee's Gibsonesque “mirror-world” in which “patterns [are] de/recontextualized at the edge of recognition and seen in syrupy slo-mo.”