William Gibson

William Ford Gibson is an American and 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 bleak, 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.

Born:

Mar 17, 1948 In Conway, South Carolina, United States of America

Movie/TV Credits:

9

First Appeared:

In the movie Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R. 1986-01-12

Latest Project:

Series The Real History of Science Fiction 2014-04-19