Academic
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist (born 1948)
- Life
- 1948 – present
- Born
- March 17, 1948
- Nationality
- United States, Canada
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. 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 icono
