William Gibson
William Ford Gibson is a speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were 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. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the matrix, in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984).
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Conway
- Educated at
- Emerson Preparatory SchoolUniversity of British Columbia
- Awards
- 🏆 Tähtivaeltaja Award🏆 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award🏆 Ditmar Award🏆 Philip K. Dick Award🏆 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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"Organized religion, he saw, back in the day, had been purely a signal-to-noise proposition, at once the medium and the message, a one-channel universe. For Europe, that channel was Christian, and broa…"
"She finds the Children's Crusade just as she remembers it. Damien's expression for what descends on Camden Town on a Saturday, this shuffling lemming-jam of young people…Cayce has spent hours here, es…"
"Life is more difficult for the serious artist," allows Voytek, "Time is money, but also money is money."
"Wintermute is the recognition code for an AI. I've got the Turing Registry numbers. Artificial intelligence…It's got limited Swiss citizenship under their equivalent of the Act of '53. Built for Tessi…"
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Timeline
1948
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Birth2008
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