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Harpur Palate Volume 5, Issue 1Summer 2005CONTENTS:JOHN GARDNER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTIONKate Leary, Winner - A Different LanguageGrant Tracey, Hon. Men. - When Characters DieShivani Manghnani, Hon. Men. - The Paying GuestFICTION Luck Be a Lady by Kristie M. BettsIn the Black Pond, Swimming by Rachel MayJohn Henrys Headlamp by Josh WeilBeasts of Eden by Jennifer SpiegelBurned Up Heroes by Robert VivianESSAYThe Three Musky Tears, or, Three Decades and Realms of Editorial Happenstance by Stephen Corey MEMOIRPersephones Pomegranate by William V. SpanosPOETRY Sorting Through the Records by Jack RidlThe Ontology of Dogs by Jack RidlDream Walker by John SmelcerNikita Khrushchev Buys Sheets by Nancy ThompsonAll Night the Night Has Been by Lyn LifshinAt the Estate Sale by Mira RosenthalThe Overpass Outside Fort Worth by Fredrick ZydekEditor of Death by Stephen CoreyQuicken by Kate BelesSuture by Francine Conley Idioms (II) by Francine ConleyWhat We Keep by Sean Thomas Dougherty Trying to Make a Long Story Short by Matt Zambito A Day at Coney Island, 1999 by Sean PrentissWaiting in the Waiting Room by Sharon MollerusThe Last Samurai by David ThornbrughVerbal Narcotic by Kevin M. GouldOne Into Two by Elizabeth ReesThe Women in My Household by Anis ShivaniPHOTOGRAPHYAllison Miller PortfolioJose Fernando Flores Portfolio ... Read more

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Chapters: William Gibson, David Scott, Ramon Sessions, Vanna White, Nancy O'dell, Bob Conley, Robert H. Brooks, Kelly Tilghman, Allen Patrick, Gerard Francis Tempest, Brandon Frye, Thad Viers, Anthony King, Robert Abraham. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre. Although much of Gi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33119 ... Read more