Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

by William Gibson

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496 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1993

About the author

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William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.

While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology.


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Reviews

[Miles Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simms' first border novel, which looks at early 19th Cent Georgia, ca 1828/9 during that state's gold rush. The work labours under the sentimentalism that characterized romanticist literature during the era, but Simms' work is far from a simple regurgitation of earlier romantics. This is a truly southern work, and the setting (N Georgia) and the particular characters offer some vision of the creation of a truly distinct southern literature. Its also an interesting story in its own right. Very much recommended for those interested in southern literature and history, and especially Georgia in the Early Republic.

[J. Alfred · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got this book from a website called "Forgotten Books." Reading it helped me understand why it got that way.
It is one of the worst examples of sentimentalism I've ever come across, as well as being wildly unbalanced: one moment you'll be laughing at an honestly funny scene, the next, somebody's being killed in a strange mix of graphic violence and bathos. There is also an underlying message that mothers, representing society as a whole (but still very much themselves) are responsible for much of humanity's faults. A big ol' (500 page) mess.