William Gibson

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1948-03-17 (76 years old)

Place of Birth Conway, South Carolina, United States of America

Also Known As William Ford Gibson, William F. Gibson

William Gibson

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.

Known For

Writer

Neuromancer

as Novel

2022
1999
New Rose Hotel

as Short Story

1995
Johnny Mnemonic

as Screenplay

1995
Johnny Mnemonic

as Short Story

1993
Tomorrow Calling

as Short Story

1993
The X-Files

as Writer

Actor

2020
Upload

as Author William Gibson

2001
My Love, My Umbrella

as Philosopher

1990
Cyberpunk

as Himself

1989
Decade

as Self

Producer

Neuromancer

as Executive Producer