Gibsonesque

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English

Etymology

From Gibson +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Gibsonesque (comparative more Gibsonesque, superlative most Gibsonesque)

  1. (music) Reminiscent of the guitars made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
  2. (literature) Reminiscent of the works of William Gibson (born 1948), American-Canadian novelist and essayist who popularized the science fiction concept of cyberspace.
    • 2005, Gerald Gaylard, After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism, Witwatersrand University Press:
      Rather than Gibsonesque warnings of the extinction of individuality in corporate hyperspace, for instance, current African writers tentatively advance versions of virtual identity that centre around relative location in motion.
    • 2011, Paul Lester, Bonkers: The Story of Dizzee Rascal, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:
      Chang even invoked American-Canadian sci-fi cyberpunk author William Gibson, talking of Dizzee's Gibsonesque “mirror-world” in which “patterns de/recontextualized at the edge of recognition and seen in syrupy slo-mo.”