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William Gibson

American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist (born 1948)

Vie: 1948 – présent
Né(e) le: 17 mars 1948
Nationalité: États-Unis, 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