William Gibson

(born 1948) U.S. science fiction author (considered the father of "cyberpunk", published many books whose plots take place in cyberspace)

William Ford Gibson (born , Conway, South Carolina) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularizing it in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.
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n. William Gibson (born 1948) U.S. science fiction author (considered the father of "cyberpunk", published many books whose plots take place in cyberspace)

<person> Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993).
Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace".
Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
(1996-06-11)