William Gibson
William Gibson (born 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the ”noir prophet” of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term ”cyberspace” in his short story ”Burning Chrome” and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.
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2020 Agency
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2014 The Peripheral
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2010 Zero History (The Blue Ant Trilogy)
(science fiction, thriller)
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2007 Spook Country (The Blue Ant Trilogy)
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2003 Pattern Recognition (The Blue Ant Trilogy)
(science fiction > cyberpunk, thriller)
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1999 All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge, #3)
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1996 Idoru (Bridge, #2)
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1995 Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story
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1993 Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)
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1990 The Difference Engine
(science fiction, alternate history > steampunk)
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1988 Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
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1986 Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
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1986 Burning Chrome
(science fiction, short stories)
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1984 Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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