WRITER

William Gibson

1914 - 2008

William Gibson

William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was an American playwright and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Gibson has received more than 6,144,651 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. William Gibson is the 5,033rd most popular writer (down from 4,219th in 2019), the 7,081st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,779th in 2019) and the 561st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

6.1M
Page Views (PV)
47.43
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
4.01
Effective Languages (L*)
2.48
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Virtual light

Fiction, Science fiction, Twenty-first century

California, the not so distant future. Berry, ex-cop/private security, looking to just make ends meet. Chevette, a young bicycle messanger. A murder, a secret missing, and a murderer closing in on Chevette. Berry is the only thing standing between him and Chevette. Can he keep her alive long enough to figure why, and how to stop it? Multi-national corporations, reality tv, a world gone just a bit more ragged than our own. Murder, mystery, real people just trying to get by or survive another day in an harsh world. Big dome private communities and shanty towns built on the discarded remains of a bridge we all know. High tech meets duct tape and superglue. With his unique style and flair, Gibson spins a tale set in a world just to the left of ours.

1993

Count Zero

Long Now Manual for Civilization

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo on the Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he's only trying to get out alive. A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future and sequel to Neuromancer

1986

The Miracle Worker

Drama, Women teachers, Deafblind women

1956

Neuromancer

Information superhighway, Computer hackers, Conspiracies

The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. More information on the [novel's official page][1]. [1]: http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp

1984

Mona Lisa overdrive

Science fiction

1987

Burning Chrome

American Science fiction, Science fiction, American, Long Now Manual for Civilization

Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's. Contents: Preface / by Bruce Sterling -- Johnny Mnemonic -- The Gernsback continuum -- Fragments of a hologram rose -- The belonging kind / by John Shirley and William Gibson -- Hinterlands -- Red star, winter orbit / by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson -- New Rose Hotel -- The winter market -- Dogfight / by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson -- Burning chrome.

1986

Page views of William Gibsons by language

Over the past year William Gibson has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 403,074 views, followed by Russian (5,145), and Italian (1,356). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (76.44%), Persian (54.59%), and Finnish (40.43%)