William Gibson

Also Known As: William Ford Gibson, William F. Gibson

Biography: William Ford Gibson is an American and 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 bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.

Department: Writing

Place of Birth: Conway, South Carolina, United States of America

Birthday: March 17, 1948

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

No Maps for These Territories
My Love, My Umbrella
Cyberpunk
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Decade