William Gibson(born March 17, 1948, Conway,South Carolina, U.S.) is an American Canadian writer ofscience fictionwho was the leader of the genre’scyberpunkmovement. Gibson grew up in southwestern Virginia. After dropping out ofhigh schoolin 1967, he traveled to Canada and eventually settled...
William Gibson is one of those authors whose style is so distinct that it’s immediately recognizable. Anyone who’s read one of his novels could pick up another and, without looking at the cover, probably identify it as Gibson’s merely by reading the first page. His popularity indicates ...
"Neuromancer" is the first novel in "The Sprawl" trilogy. The book was published on July 1, 1984. 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
WILLIAM GIBSON Teen geek makes good, redefines sci-fiNo abstract available.Zuckerman, EdwardPeopleZuckerman, E. (1991, June 10). William Gibson: Teen geek makes good; redefines sci-fi. People, p...
The debut novel by Gibson,Neuromancerhas been praised as one of the first and most-respected works within the cyberpunk genre and has received numerous accolades, including the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Hugo Award. The novel served as the first book in the "Sprawl" tr...
Gibson is a cyberpunk master as well as the genre's inventor. From novels to short stories to graphic novels, these eight William Gibson books are essential.
Gibson is renowned for his visionary influence on-and predictive attunement to technology, design, urban sociology, and cyberculture. Popular cyberpunk film The Matrix (1999) drew inspiration for its title, characters, and story elements from Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy, his first set of novels, comp...
Gibson avoids that pitfall inThe Peripheral. But when io9’s Annalee Newitz asked Gibson if the new novel was the first installment of a new trilogy, he dismissed the possibility. The danger of “appalling genre cheese potential” was too great. “With the multiverse thing – ewww, it has...
of his primary themes is the abuse of blacks by the Southern whites. Because Faulkner's novels treat the decay and anguish of the South since the Civil War, they abound in violent and sordid events. But they are grounded in a profound and compassionate humanism that celebrates the tragedy, ...
“We just live in this world of stuff and we’ve got to do something with it, make some sort of sense out of it,” says Gibson. “And I just sort of make it into science-fiction novels. “What I hope attracts people to the kind of work I do is that they recognize the effects...