William Brooks, his music has been heard on The Late Show with David Letterman and CBSs primetime comedy how i met your mother. His film music credits include The Dinner Party, Out of theGarden, Underground New York and American Jed. .After earning a business degree from The University of Oklahoma, he chose to ignore the sirens call of corporate life and exited north to the folk music garden of Greenwich Village. Since landing in New York City, William has released six full length CDs, which have sold in more than a dozen countries. He is also featured on a number of compilation CDs.
Spook Country is a 2007 political thriller set in contemporary North America, following on from the author's previous novel, Pattern Recognition (2003). The plot comprises the intersecting tales of three protagonists: Hollis Henry, a journalist researching a story on locative art; Tito, a Cuban-Chinese spy working for a renegade ex-CIA agent; and Milgrim, a drug-addled translator held captive by a quasi-governmental covert operative.
The Difference Engine (by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling)
The Difference Engine is an alternate history and a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre (of science fiction). It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer (actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine).
All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy. Like its predecessors, Virtual Light and Idoru, it is a speculative fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, postcyberpunk near-future.It features three separate but overlapping stories, with the continual appearance of pivotal characters as narrative anchor points. The San Francisco Bridge provides the overarching setting of the trilogy.
Idoru is the second book in William Gibson's Bridge trilogy (following Virtual Light, followed by All Tomorrow's Parties). Idoru is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk near-future. The main character, Colin Laney, has a talent for identifying nodal points, where historic or social changes are about to occur.
