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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
William Gibson Writes the Future (GQ) William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral.
Apr 19, 2024 · William Gibson, American Canadian writer of science fiction who was a leader of the genre’s cyberpunk movement. His notable books included his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984), which won numerous awards, including a Nebula and a Hugo. Learn more about Gibson’s life and work.
The works of William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in " Burning Chrome " (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel Neuromancer .
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and ...
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. [1] . It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy.
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.
Jan 24, 2012 · Features. Interview. An interview with William Gibson. By Jesse Hicks on January 24, 2012 12:47 pm 48 Comments. William Gibson famously coined the term "cyberspace," and gave us a singular...
Dec 9, 2019 · December 9, 2019. Instead of fantasizing about future worlds, Gibson sets his novels in the ongoing, alarming realm of the present. Photograph by Benoit Paillé for The New Yorker. Suppose you’ve...
William Gibson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 14, 1788, the son of John Gibson. He received his early education in Boston. He then attended St. John’s College in Annapolis and the 1803-1804 session of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), but left both institutions without obtaining a degree. In 1805 Gibson began ...
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