William Gibson

William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-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 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 6,182,591 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. William Gibson is the 978th most popular writer (up from 997th in 2019), the 1,154th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,114th in 2019) and the 116th 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."