William Gibson
March 17, 1948 (76 years old) in Conway, South Carolina, United States of America
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.
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- 2020 · Upload as Author William Gibson
- 2014 · The Real History of Science Fiction as Himself
- 2001 · My Love, My Umbrella as Philosopher
- 2000 · No Maps for These Territories as Self
- 1994 · Visions of Heaven and Hell as Self
- 1990 · Cyberpunk as Himself
- 1989 · Decade as Self
- 1989 · Prisoners of Gravity as Self