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William Gibson
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American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author known for pioneering the cyberpunk genre and exploring themes of technology and the future. His influential works, including the novel "Neuromancer," have shaped how people imagine the impact of computers and the internet on society.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 November 1914
- Died
- 25 November 2008
- Works
- 40
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
- Miracle en Alabama
- Two Plays and a Preface.
- Golden Boy
- The Cobweb
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Writing · Conway, South Carolina, USA
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…
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- Upload — Author William Gibson2020
- The Real History of Science Fiction — Himself2014
- My Love, My Umbrella — Philosopher2001
- No Maps for These Territories — Self2000
- Visions of Heaven and Hell — Self1994
- New Nightmares — Himself1993
- Cyberpunk — Himself1990
- Decade — Self1989
- Prisoners of Gravity — Self1989
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1948
Discography
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William Ford Gibson, born March 17, 1948 (1948-03-17) (age 59), in Conway, South Carolina is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.[16] Gibson coined the term cyberspace in 1982, and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In depicting a visualised worldwide communications network before the ubiquity of the Internet, Gibson is credited with anticipating important aspects <a href="https://www.last.fm
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5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,303x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 51,798x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,750x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,900x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
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Quotes
- “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”
- “The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”
- “In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write. And have been, ever since.”
- “The future is not google-able.”
- “There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.”
- “Loss is not without its curious advantages for the artist. Major traumatic breaks are pretty common in the biographies of artists I respect.”
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William Gibson
William Gibson is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral.
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- William Gibson
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- 1948-03-17
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- William Ford Gibson
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14 objects attributed to William Gibson, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) 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 iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
After expanding on the story in Neuromancer with two more novels (Count Zero in 1986 and Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre steampunk. In the 1990s, Gibson composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which explored the sociological developments of near-future urban environments, postindustrial society, and late capitalism.