It had too many pictures if you want information this book is not for you all it is is pictures. I did not like it at all.

This book literally has a picture on every page! It is also a good biography of his life as well as a film chronicle. If you want to follow up on his past and present works; this is the book for you!

This is the first time that I have been asked to review a book that is simply unintelligible. The trouble lies with the author's allusive, non-linear style, where rigour and clarity are needed. His writing style is so jumbled that it is impossible to tell what, if anything, he is getting at. The range of material he refers to is unmanageably vast, but he is a long way from being in control of it. Surprising connections are made, but he seems unable to think clearly about them. The result is pretentious and bizarre.

I note that the "blurb" on the dust-jacket makes no attempt to summarize what the book is saying, neither do the prestigious people who have provided endorsements. I suspect that neither they nor the publishers could follow the book any better than I could. There may be short-term puzzlement about how Routledge came to publish such an unsatisfactory manuscript but, beyond that, it will surely sink without trace.

With such an incomprehensible book, it is hard for a reviewer to begin to indicate what it is about, but one central idea seems to be that of "live metaphor". There is no clear definition of the concept, but Gibson seems to be suggesting that much discourse in both cosmology and theology consists of "live metaphors". There are indeed interesting issues about how these two disciplines are radically metaphorical in similar but non-identical ways. That, I suspect, is the issue that the author was trying to write about, but it can't be clarified by a book of this kind. I certainly cannot recommend it. - Fraser Watts, University of Cambridge

God and the Universe by Arthur Gibson (Routledge) combines incisive interpretations of the latest scientific theories of the origins of the universe with an unparalleled understanding of their religious and philosophical implications. In tackling head-on the highly charged issue of God's relevance to contemporary cosmology, the breadth of Gibson's perspective on his subject matter is amazing: from virtual reality to the meaning of life and from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking. Books like this do not come along very often. I suggest one take a couple of mornings off and read through it. God and the Universe will provide some important novel perspectives about how things can mean from the smallest to the largest and how perhaps best to go about learning more. God and the Universe is a preliminary exploration to suggest strategies to discover ways out of this impasse, conceived as the first of a series of books. It displays many limitations: does the book cover too much ground and too many subjects? Gibson does not engage with Hegel, and is content only occasionally to treat Kant. The book addresses Aristotle's Poetics, rather than, as one might expect, his Metaphysics, and instead attempts to construct metaphysical problems out of our contemporary astrophysics, without introducing the significance of the reception of Aristotle's thinking into Christian theology. But, however one assesses, for example, Kant's contribution to `faith and reason' and `God's relation to the world' debates, the effect of systematically commenting upon Kant's great opus, or other seminal authors, is to be regulated by the controlling notions of relevance and commentary to which they subject us, and to which they have been subjected. This is not a whim by which one denounces or discards such authors, but to attempt, however imperfectly, to stand as far as is possible independently of these histories of influence and to think afresh. Yet to ignore them is both impossible and to delight in alienation. Gibson has tried to produce a different sort of use and this avoidance of authorities. The learning is staggering and can leave one wondering what are Gibson's premises. Still this read is pure adventure that many will find plenty to think about, even if the details eventually take us in different directions.It's an important read.

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This was interesting, although I really rather liked the anthology "burning chrome" better (includes the short story.) I thought the screenplay was interesting because I really enjoyed the short story, and was curious to see how such a good short story became such a wretched movie. One item of note was the "rant" of "spider" (henry rollins) that seemed to have been lifted from dennis leary.

The short story Johnny Mnemonic is one of my favorite short stories, and I was very excited when I heard they were making a movie of it. This was before I knew that good stories don't necessarily turn into good movies. The movie has several problems, including a screen-play that has a few too many genre cliches. Hard-core fans of William Gibson may have enjoyed spotting elements from his previous work, and in my opinion it is these hard-core fans who will enjoy this film the most. This book here has the short story (good) and the screen-play (interesting for Gibson fans and people who enjoyed the film).

This book was terrible, ther was no exitement or nothin'.

I may be "too old" for this book, but I thought it was great!! Sure, there wasn't much in the way of a story line, but the pop-up pictures were awsome!! Go buy it!!

I didn't actually read this book. I checked it out, though, and apparently it's about some coastal town in the 1830's, it has nothing to do with sci-fi and it's written by a _late_ professor William Gibson, so if you're looking for a sci-fi novel by the author of Neuromancer, this is definitely not it.

Stirs the heart. A great book.

This volume reveiws the texts of Latin and vernacular translations of the Bible from late antiquity to the about the time of the invention of the printing press. The book covers several existing manuspcripts and texts and discusses their style, lenght, script type, brief historical setting and other usefull information for the person looking for the history of different versions and transalations of the Bible, plus information for those interested in late antique and medieval manuscripts. I was dissapointed at the black and white reproduction of what must be gorgeous colored texts and the fact that the book does not goes in depth into the subject. Still is an interesting tome to have for those who are interested in the subject.

A cool book, if you are looking for a non-fiction about the period form 1760 to 1850. But this has NOTHING TO DO with WILLIAM GIBSON the cyperpunk sci-fi author. This is not that author

yeterli düzeyde bilgi birikimine sahip olmayýp , konular üstün körü iþlenmiþ. Konular gereksiz detaylarla boðulmuþ gerekli detaylar göz ardý edilmiþtir. Adamlar üþenmemiþ 630 sayfa yazmýþ ama boþ ben netekim daha iyisini yazarým kanatindeyim.