Order of William Gibson Books
William Gibson is an American-Canadian author of speculative fiction, including cyberpunk and steampunk. He coined the term “cyberspace” back in 1982 in the short story Burning Chrome. He is perhaps best known for his debut novel, Neuromancer, where he elaborated on and popularized the concept of cyberspace. Gibson left the United States during the Vietnam War in order to avoid the draft, settling in Canada and becoming a full-time writer. Although you would think Gibson would own all of the latest technology, he says that computers themselves don’t interest him, but rather “how people behave around them.”
William Gibson would make his debut as a novelist in 1984 with Neuromancer, although he was writing short stories as early as 1977. Below is a list of William Gibson’s published works in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Blue Ant Books
Pattern Recognition | (2003) | |
Spook Country | (2007) | |
Zero History | (2010) |
Publication Order of Bridge Books
Virtual Light | (1993) | |
Idoru | (1996) | |
All Tomorrow’s Parties | (1999) |
Publication Order of The Peripheral Books
The Peripheral | (2014) | |
Agency | (2020) |
Publication Order of Sprawl Books
Neuromancer | (1984) | |
Count Zero | (1986) | |
Mona Lisa Overdrive | (1988) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Difference Engine | (1990) | |
Johnny Mnemonic | (1995) |
Publication Order of Plays
Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay by William Gibson | (2021) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
(with Michael Swanwick)
Dogfight (in Omni) | (1985) | |
The Winter Market | (1986) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Burning Chrome | (1986) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Distrust That Particular Flavor | (2012) |
Publication Order of Routledge Approaches to History Books
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life | (2009) | |
Narrative Projections of a Black British History | (2011) | |
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice | (2011) | |
Integrity and Historical Research | (2011) | |
Frank Ankersmit’s Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience | (2011) | |
The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity | (2013) | |
The Fiction of History | (2014) | |
The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism | (2014) | |
The Material of World History | (2014) | |
The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future | (2015) | |
Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne | (2015) | |
‘A New Type of History’: Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past | (2015) | |
The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies | (2015) | |
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention | (2015) | |
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance | (2015) | |
History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History | (2015) | |
How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science | (2015) | |
The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand | (2016) | |
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography | (2017) | |
History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School | (2017) | |
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past | (2017) | |
Universal History and the Making of the Global | (2018) | |
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money | (2018) | |
A Personalist Philosophy of History | (2019) | |
Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons | (2019) | |
Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History | (2019) | |
Teleology and Modernity | (2019) | |
Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian | (2019) | |
The Aesthetics of History | (2019) | |
Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History | (2019) | |
The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values | (2019) | |
In Praise of Historical Anthropology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism | (2020) | |
Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach | (2020) | |
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History | (2020) | |
Africa, Empire and World Disorder | (2020) | |
History in a Post-Truth World | (2020) | |
The Primacy of Method in Historical Research | (2020) | |
Archives and Human Rights | (2021) | |
Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History | (2021) | |
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments | (2021) | |
National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison | (2021) | |
Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand | (2021) | |
Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation | (2021) | |
How to Write About the Holocaust | (2022) | |
The Politics of Time in China and Japan | (2022) | |
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Publication Order of Universe Books
Universe 1 | (1971) | |
Universe 2 | (1972) | |
Universe 3 | (1973) | |
Universe 4 | (1974) | |
Universe 5 | (1974) | |
Universe 6 | (1976) | |
Universe 7 | (1977) | |
Universe 8 | (1978) | |
Universe 9 | (1979) | |
Universe 10 | (1980) | |
Universe 11 | (1981) | |
Universe 12 | (1982) | |
Universe 13 | (1983) | |
Universe 14 | (1984) | |
Universe 15 | (1985) | |
Universe 16 | (1986) | |
Universe 17 | (1987) | |
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Publication Order of Best Science Fiction of the Year Books
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 | (1972) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 | (1973) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 | (1974) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 | (1975) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 | (1976) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 | (1977) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 | (1978) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 | (1979) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 | (1980) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 | (1981) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 | (1982) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | |
Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 | (1984) | |
Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 | (1984) | |
Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 | (1986) | |
Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 | (1987) | |
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Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Archangel | (2017) |
Publication Order of Audible Originals Books
Alien III: An Audible Original Drama | (2019) |
Publication Order of Marvel Graphic Novel Books
(with Ernie Colón, D.G. Chichester)
Star Slammers | (1983) | |
Ax | (1988) | |
Punisher/Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday’s Web | (1992) | |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Universe 11 | (1981) | |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | |
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1983) | |
Nebula Awards 18 | (1983) | |
Tesseracts | (1985) | |
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | (1985) | |
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1985) | |
Mirrorshades | (1986) | |
The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1987) | |
Mississippi Review 47 / 48 | (1988) | |
Alien Sex | (1990) | |
Semiotext SF | (1991) | |
Storming the Reality Studio | (1991) | |
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories | (1992) | |
The Ascent of Wonder | (1994) | |
New Worlds 1 | (1996) | |
Hackers | (1996) | |
The Ultimate Cyberpunk | (2002) | |
The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture | (2002) | |
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels | (2005) | |
Rewired | (2007) | |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | |
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons | (2011) | |
The Time Traveler’s Almanac | (2013) | |
Cyberpunk | (2019) |
Note: The Difference Engine was co-authored by Bruce Sterling.