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William Gibson

1948 - Today

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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American 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 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 in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Gibson has received more than 6,451,516 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. William Gibson is the 1,014th most popular writer (down from 976th in 2019), the 1,175th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,154th in 2019) and the 115th most popular American Writer.

William Gibson is most famous for his novel Neuromancer, which has been called the "best cyberpunk novel ever written" and "the archetypal cyberpunk work."

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  • 6.5M

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  • 66.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Gibson ranks 1,014 out of 7,302. Before him are Machado de Assis, Herodian, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Noah Gordon. After him are Vasily Zhukovsky, Thomas De Quincey, André Bazin, August Kubizek, Mary Higgins Clark, and Shūsaku Endō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, William Gibson ranks 65. Before him are Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Bille August, Claude Jade, Svetlana Savitskaya, Lluís Llach, and Jerzy Kukuczka. After him are Edmund Kemper, Edwige Fenech, Chris de Burgh, Radomir Antić, Alan Parsons, and Maye Musk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Gibson ranks 1,175 out of 20,380. Before him are Susan Wojcicki (1968), Jackie Robinson (1919), Noah Gordon (1926), Liliʻuokalani (1838), Clyde Drexler (1962), and Alonzo Church (1903). After him are Gene Sharp (1928), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), Anjelica Huston (1951), George Armitage Miller (1920), Lisa Kudrow (1963), and Mary Higgins Clark (1927).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William Gibson ranks 115. Before him are Will Durant (1885), Richard Matheson (1926), William Styron (1925), Jean Webster (1876), Edith Wharton (1862), and Noah Gordon (1926). After him are Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Sam Shepard (1943), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), and Valerie Solanas (1936).

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