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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web.
Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans – a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre.
- Birth Date:
- March 17, 1948
- Birthplace:
- Conway, South Carolina
- Citizenship:
- United States, Canada
- Occupation:
- Novelist
- Known for:
- Neuromancer (novel, 1984)
- Period:
- Cyberpunk, steampunk, postcyberpunk
- Influenced By:
- Alfred Bester, Jorge Luis Borges, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Cornell, David Cronenberg, Samuel R. Delany, Thomas M. Disch, Manny Farber, Dashiell Hammett, Howard Hawks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sogo Ishii, Thomas Pynchon, Lou Reed, Joanna Russ, Robert Stone
- Influenced:
- Lewis Call, Cory Doctorow, Richard K. Morgan, Linda Nagata, Neal Stephenson, Charles Stross, John MacLachlan Gray
- Website:
- http://WilliamGibsonbooks.com
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