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The Shadow of Spirit in William Gibson's Matrix Trilogy.

Examines the matrix trilogy (comprised of `Neuromancer (1984), `Count Zero' (1986), and `Mona Lisa Overdrive' (1988)) by William Gibson), all of which give the sense of irresolution in the cyberpunk response to the spiritual. Gibson's exhibition of a kind of fashionable condescension toward religio...

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Published in:Extrapolation (Kent State University Press) Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 278 - 290
Main Author: Olsen, L.
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Kent State University Press Fall91
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