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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-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 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 in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.

William Gibson - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist (born 1948) For other people named William Gibson, see William Gibson (disambiguation) . "Gibsonian" redirects here. For the school of psychology, see Gibsonian psychology . {{Cite magazine |last=Thill |first=Scott |date=March 17, 2011 |title=March 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/03/0317cyberspace-author-william-gibson-born/ |magazine=WIRED |language=en-US |access-date = March 15, 2018 |archive-date=December 21, 2018 |arc

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