Who is William Gibson

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Wiliam Gibson came to widespread attention with his 1984 novel NEUROMANCER, winning both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.  The word and concept of "cyberspace" was invented by him.

William Gibson at a Glance 

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...

Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy and Short Stories 

These are the books that brought Gibson mainstream attention as an author. His vision of the future included not only cyberspace but lots of corporate espionage, hired assassins, biochemicals as drugs, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (aka the Sprawl), and virtual celebrities.

Neuromancer

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Count Zero

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

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Burning Chrome

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William Gibson's Blog 

thoughts and musings from the man himself

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William Gibson Vids 

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Spook Country - William Gibson

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The Evolution of William Gibson's Writing 

As Gibson has continued to write, he's gone more from futuristic to about twenty minutes into the future, moving into a territory of a tomorrow that's about to come, a methodology used by one of his own writing idols, J.G. Ballard. Gibson isn't so much inventing new fantastical things as much as keeping his fingers on the pulse of what modern technology is about to make possible and then thinking up ways that people might use that technology.

Pattern Recognition

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All Tomorrow's Parties

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Spook Country

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William Gibson is called "the father of Cyberpunk" by some, and is trashed as a poser by others. But one thing is clear. His book Neuromancer (1984), which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards that year, was the Christ-child of cyberpunk, whose road to superstardom was paved by the John the Baptist figures of Samuel Delaney, Roger Zelanzy, Philip K. Dick, and James Triptree, Jr.
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William Gibson is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of the Cyberspace trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive, and is the co-author (with Bruce Sterling) of The Difference Engine.
An interview with William Gibson (by Dan Josefsson)
Author William Gibson on non-functioning American democracy, the importance of giving computers to the poor, and the elitist appeal of the Internet. The page contains sound samples of Gibsons answers.
William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview : Rolling Stone
You made your name as a science-fiction writer, but in your last two novels you've moved squarely...
William Gibson Hates Futurists :: tyeebooks.ca
Just don't call William Gibson dystopian. The author of the cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and eight novels since, admits his invented worlds aren't altogether pleasant places to imagine. But "someone stuck in Darfur right now might be happy to live in them. People who say I'm dystopian are middle class pussies!"
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Open Source Radio did a special yesterday on the NSA's indiscriminate, illegal databasing of American citizens' calls, revealed in an expose in yesterday's USA Today. They got William Gibson on for a rare interview and he was fascinating, trying to place this in context as a spasm generated by humanity's inability to master its technologies. Audio starts about 34 minutes in.

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