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Gary Gibson

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http://www.goodreads.com/garygibsonsfwriter

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Glasgow, The United Kingdom

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http://www.whitescreenofdespair.blogspot.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

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June 2008

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Gary Gibson's first novel, Angel Stations, was published in 2004. Interzone called it "dense and involving, puzzling and perplexing. It's unabashed science fiction, with an almost "Golden Age" feel to it ..."

His second novel was Against Gravity in 2005; the Guardian described it as "building on current trends to produce a convincing picture of the world in 2096."

Stealing Light was first published in 2007, and garnered a wide range of positive reviews. The London Times called it: "A violent, inventive, relentlessly gripping adventure ... intelligently written and thought-provoking".

Stealing Light is the first volume in a three-part series which takes the notion of wide-screen baroque space opera to its heart and runs with it. The second volu...more

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Gary Gibson's Blog

I'm a museum exhibit, in the Scottish National Library.

I'd heard a few weeks ago about an exhibit in the Scottish National Library in Edinburgh, but had not at first been aware that I formed part of it. The exhibit - in glass cases, just to the right of the entrance to the SNL near the city centre - is meant to celebrate science fiction as part of Scotland's national heritage, and rightly so.

Behind glass this afternoon, on a visit there, I saw not... read more »

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Books by Gary Gibson

Average rating: 3.59 · 511 ratings · 67 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Stealing Light 3.50 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Nova War 3.85 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Empire of Light 3.64 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Final Days 3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Angel Stations 3.22 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Against Gravity 3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Playing with Magnets 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Science for Fun: Making Shapes 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	My rating:
	Light and Color 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Touched by an Angel & The Ranch 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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