
William 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
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Neuromancer
as Novel
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Pattern Recognition
as Novel
2022
The Peripheral
as Novel
1999
New Rose Hotel
as Short Story
1995
Johnny Mnemonic
as Short Story
1995
Johnny Mnemonic
as Screenplay
1993
Tomorrow Calling
as Short Story
1993
The X-Files
as Writer
Actor
2020
Upload
as Author William Gibson
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself
2001
My Love, My Umbrella
as Philosopher
2000
No Maps for These Territories
as Self
1994
Visions of Heaven and Hell
as Self
1993
New Nightmares
as Himself
1990
Cyberpunk
as Himself
1989
Decade
as Self
1989
Prisoners of Gravity
as Self
Producer
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Neuromancer
as Executive Producer