of lonelygirl15 drew influence from him. Another phenomenon anticipated by Gibson is the rise of reality television, for example in Virtual Light, which featured a satirical extrapolated version of COPS. When an interviewer in 1988 asked about the Bulletin Board System jargon in his writing, Gibson answered "I'd never so much as touched a PC when I wrote Neuromancer"; he was familiar, he said, with the science-fiction community, which overlapped with the BBS community. Gibson similarly did not play computer games despite appearing in his stories. He wrote Neuromancer on a 1927 olive-green Hermes portable typewriter, which Gibson described as "the kind of thing Hemingway would have used in the field". By 1988 he used an Apple IIc and AppleWorks to write, with a modem ("I don't really use it for anything"), but until 1996 Gibson did not have an email address, a lack he explained at the time to have been motivated by a desire to avoid correspondence that would distract him from writing. His first exposure to a website came while writing Idoru when a web developer built one for Gibson. In 2007 he said, "I have a 2005 PowerBook G4, a gig of memory, wireless router. That's it. I'm anything but an early adopter, generally. In fact, I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is 'around them'." Selected worksNovels Sprawl trilogy: Neuromancer (1984) Count Zero (1986) Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) The Difference Engine (1990; with Bruce Sterling) Bridge trilogy: Virtual Light (1993) Idoru (1996) All Tomorrow's Parties (1999) Blue Ant trilogy (Hubertus Bigend): Pattern Recognition (2003) Spook Country (2007) Zero History (2010) Jackpot trilogy The Peripheral (2014) Agency (2020) Jackpot (TBD)Adapted screenplays Archangel (2016–2017) (Graphic novel) Alien 3 (2018–2019) (Graphic novel) Alien III (2019) (Audio drama) Alien³: The Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson (2021). (Novel by Pat Cadigan)Short stories Burning Chrome (1986, preface by Bruce Sterling), collects Gibson's early short fiction, listed by original publication date: "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (1977, UnEarth 3) "Johnny Mnemonic" (1981, Omni) "The Gernsback Continuum" (1981, Universe 11) "Hinterlands" (1981, Omni) "The Belonging Kind", with John Shirley (1981, Shadows 4) "Burning Chrome" (1982, Omni) "Red Star, Winter Orbit", with Bruce Sterling (1983, Omni) "New Rose Hotel" (1984, Omni) "The Winter Market" (Nov. 1985, Vancouver) "Dogfight", with Michael Swanwick (1985,