Dear forumers

I reckon that plenty hints lie snug in the forum discussions. Nonetheless, I'd like to create a new article for all the ones like me who are trying to get (predominantly) scientific articles e.g. term papers or published secondary literature about The Sprawl Trilogy.

Can you please list what you consider noteworthy enough. And where to get hold of it.

Regards

Kamel Alohimara

I'm guessing you want to do a review article.

Here's a Google Scholar search to get you started.
"William Gibson" -author:Gibson

The above excludes any articles/books written by someone named Gibson, and will have a lot of articles, books, etc. with minor references, as well as his later works.

Hey, I am a graduate student too!

Translation:

Will you do my bibliographic research for me if I ask nicely?

LOL! I'm a librarian, I'm used to it!

Ah, another one of the useless...

If you want someone to do your work for you on the internet, you can pay me like every other dodgy website out there.

Seriously. Get a fuckin' clue.

Dear FP

Thanks for your first entry, that could help. Nevertheless, to me it doesn't seem so unnecessary to create a list of recommended secondary literature. Is this desire so far to you all?

Best wishes,

Kamel

That's an interesting question. On some fan sites, for example (litany.net), you can find a collection of the various interviews and articles that have been written on the subject of the fan site around the web, as a resource for fans.

In a scholarly context, people who do work on major authors will compile bibliographies of all scholarly work produced on that author during the preceding year (or, for all time, if nobody's done the major lifting yet). I'm sure nobody looks on collected bibliographies on Shakespeare or Melville as unnecessary tools for students or scholars. They can prove to be invaluable, especially for someone just getting started, feeling at-sea about the whole process.

To what extent does the current-state-of-the art (Google Scholar, the MLA International Bibliography, etc.) make such a project unnecessary, these days?

With that in mind, though, most of the regular contributors to this board aren't scholars--at least not formally. You can probably count those of us who are on one hand. So even though I consider myself a scholar (Doctorate and all), I never really thought that this forum really had the obligation to collect the citations for the available scholarly work on Gibson.

(Editing like mad before the 7 minute limit):

Another thought: wouldn't Gibson just *die* if he found that this might end up being the seed for the "William Gibson Society"? If there can already be one for Cormac McCarthy, I hardly see why there couldn't be one for Gibson.

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Originally posted by Justy:Another thought: wouldn't Gibson just *die* if he found that this might end up being the seed for the "William Gibson Society"?

The very name conjures up the smell of Turkish tobacco in Victorian Gentelman's Clubs and thus I think he might find it quaint.

You know, I'm still waiting for my pipe and tweed sport-coat with elbow-patches in the mail?

Hi Justy

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Originally posted by Justy:
I never really thought that this forum really had the obligation to collect the citations for the available scholarly work on Gibson.

To my mind, no one speaks about an obligation, I can hardly imagine where your thought comes from. I am talking about a simple list of good works you have read so that other interested users can easily access it.

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Originally posted by Justy:
To what extent does the current-state-of-the art (Google Scholar, the MLA International Bibliography, etc.) make such a project unnecessary, these days?

I didn't know the possibility of searching books through google before. My academic library possesses a lot of books in their own card index but work on William Gibson, in my case especially on Mona Lisa Overdrive, is under-represented.

Thanks a lot,

Kamel

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Originally posted by Kamel:
To my mind, no one speaks about an obligation, I can hardly imagine where your thought comes from. I am talking about a simple list of good works you have read so that other interested users can easily access it.

I think there have already been such things, but
they sink like a stone. The BBS format is poor for
storing data.