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William Gibson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other persons named William Gibson, see William Gibson (disambiguation). William Gibson Portrait of Gibson in Paris during a promotional interview for the French release of Spook Country on the occasion of his 60th birthday, May 17, 2008 Born March 17, 1948 (1948-03-17) (age 61) Conway, South Carolina Occupation Novelist Citizenship United States, Canada Writing period 1977– Genres Science fiction Literary movement Cyberpunk, steampunk, postcyberpunk Notable work(s) Neuromancer (novel, 1984) Notable award(s) Nebula, Hugo, Philip K. Dick, Ditmar, Seiun, Prix Aurora Influences[show] Alfred Bester,[1] Jorge Luis Borges,[2] William S. Burroughs,[3] Joseph Cornell,[4] David Cronenberg,[5] Samuel R. Delany,[1] Thomas M. Disch,[6] Manny Farber,[7] Dashiell Hammett,[8] Howard Hawks,[9] Ursula K. Le Guin,[10] Sogo Ishii,[11] Thomas Pynchon,[2] Lou Reed,[8] Joanna Russ,[10] Robert Stone[8] Influenced[show] Lewis
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.[16] 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.[17] 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 as video games and the Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouve
