William Gibson

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Biography

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.

Career Overview

William Gibson has 14 screen credits in a career dating back to 1989. Signature works include The Peripheral, Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

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Known For
Writing
Gender
male
Known Credits
14
Birth Date
1948-03-17 00:00:00
Birth Place
Conway, South Carolina, USA

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