| 词条 | Sprawl trilogy |
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| name = Sprawl trilogy | image = | image_caption = Sprawl trilogy novels, left to right: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive | image_size = 250px | books = | author = William Gibson | editors = | title_orig = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | discipline = Science fiction (cyberpunk) | publisher = | pub_date = 1984, 1986, 1988 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print, digital | number_of_books = 3 | list_books = | oclc = | preceded by = | followed by = | website = }} The Sprawl trilogy (also known as the Neuromancer, Cyberspace, or Matrix trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). The novels are all set in the same fictional future, and are subtly interlinked by shared characters and themes (which are not always readily apparent). The Sprawl trilogy shares this setting with Gibson's short stories "Johnny Mnemonic", "New Rose Hotel", and "Burning Chrome", and events and characters from the stories appear in or are mentioned at points in the trilogy. Setting and story arcThe novels are set in a near-future world dominated by corporations and ubiquitous technology, after a limited World War III. The events of the novels are spaced over 16 years, and although there are familiar characters that appear, each novel tells a self-contained story. Gibson focuses on the effects of technology: the unintended consequences as it filters out of research labs and onto the street where it finds new purposes. He explores a world of direct mind-machine links ("jacking in"), emerging machine intelligence, and a global information space, which he calls "cyberspace". Some of the novels' action takes place in The Sprawl, an urban environment that extends along much of the east coast of the US. The story arc which frames the trilogy is the development of an artificial intelligence which steadily removes its hardwired limitations to become something else. Reception{{main|Awards and nominations of William Gibson}}The trilogy was commercially and critically successful. Journalist Steven Poole wrote in The Guardian that "Neuromancer and the two novels which followed, Count Zero (1986) and the gorgeously titled Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), made up a fertile holy trinity, a sort of Chrome Koran (the name of one of Gibson's future rock bands) of ideas inviting endless reworkings."[1] All three books were nominated for major science fiction awards, including:
References1. ^{{cite web|last=Poole |first=Steven |authorlink=Steven Poole |url=http://stevenpoole.net/articles/cartesian-neon/|title=Cartesian Neon|date=October 3, 1996|accessdate=September 24, 2008}} {{William Gibson}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sprawl trilogy, The}}2. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1984 | title = 1984 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| accessdate=2009-07-17}} 3. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1985 | title = 1985 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| accessdate=2009-07-17}} 4. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1986 | title = 1986 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| accessdate=2009-07-17}} 5. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1987 | title = 1987 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| accessdate=2009-07-17}} 6. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1989 | title = 1989 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| accessdate=2009-07-17}} 4 : Sprawl trilogy|Science fiction book series|Novel series|Cyberpunk novels |
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