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  • Inspired by the cyberpunk movement, he cranked out a series of Gibsonesque short stories that were never well received by editors due to his awkward prose style and poor command of the language, though the author maintains it was because he refused to don the mirrorshades.

    Shameless Self-promotion, Community Spirit, and Entertaining My Ass marshallpayne1 2009

  • Camo and the blending of military and street fashion is a -- I don't know, not really a theme, but maybe a motif -- in Zero History and there I was, deeply immersed in the book, when I shifted in my seat, glanced down at it, and realized that I wasn't a real person, but just a Gibsonesque character.

    Thank You, William Gibson - A Dress A Day 2010

  • Camo and the blending of military and street fashion is a -- I don't know, not really a theme, but maybe a motif -- in Zero History and there I was, deeply immersed in the book, when I shifted in my seat, glanced down at it, and realized that I wasn't a real person, but just a Gibsonesque character.

    camouflage 2010

  • Camo and the blending of military and street fashion is a -- I don't know, not really a theme, but maybe a motif -- in Zero History and there I was, deeply immersed in the book, when I shifted in my seat, glanced down at it, and realized that I wasn't a real person, but just a Gibsonesque character.

    Books 2010

  • Taking a Gibsonesque cue and going full-on cyberpunk with the story, designers made SHODAN a sentient computer system that had its morality stripped from it.

    15 Greatest Videogame Villains | Manolith 2010

  • Camo and the blending of military and street fashion is a -- I don't know, not really a theme, but maybe a motif -- in Zero History and there I was, deeply immersed in the book, when I shifted in my seat, glanced down at it, and realized that I wasn't a real person, but just a Gibsonesque character.

    September 2010 2010

  • Otherwise, we tend to fall into Mel-Gibsonesque problems, don't you think?

    Enfant Terribles of Catholic blogville Dymphna 2009

  • Isaiah Washington has apologised for being such a gay-hater in a suspiciously Gibsonesque way and it looks like it's done the trick, with gay leaders praising Isaiah Washington on both the sincerity of his apology and the general buffness of his upper arms.

    Isaiah Washington Back On TV! Yay! 2007

  • Those Gibsonesque cybershades may not be a pipedream after all.

    Transparent Transistors | Blog | Futurismic 2006

  • This psuedo-Gibsonesque representation of the metaverse is compelling, but unrealistic when you consider the limitations of the worlds the submissions came from.

    State of Play Virtual Architecture 1.0: Contest Judges Say Enough with the Simulacra Already 2005

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