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William Gibson

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William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is a 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), published by Susan Allison. These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2024). William Gibson is the 1,065th most popular writer (down from 1,013th in 2024), the 1,522nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,175th in 2019) and the 118th most popular American Writer.

William Gibson is most famous for his novel Neuromancer, which has been called the "best cyberpunk novel ever written" and "the archetypal cyberpunk work."

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Among writers, William Gibson ranks 1,065 out of 7,302. Before him are Radoje Domanović, Robert Graves, Brian O'Nolan, Clifford D. Simak, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, and P. L. Travers. After him are Nikolay Nekrasov, W. G. Sebald, Paul Bourget, Marcus Manilius, Meša Selimović, and Ilia Chavchavadze.

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Among people born in 1948, William Gibson ranks 81. Before him are Amadou Toumani Touré, Tom Wilkinson, Nicolae Timofti, Radomir Antić, Luis Galván, and Brian Eno. After him are Bernard-Henri Lévy, Svetlana Savitskaya, Edmund Kemper, Jayalalithaa, Ichirou Mizuki, and Raymond Leo Burke.

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Among people born in United States, William Gibson ranks 1,522 out of NaN. Before him are Jerry Lee Lewis (1935), Francis Gary Powers (1929), Arthur Ashe (1943), James Van Allen (1914), Clifford D. Simak (1904), and John Gotti (1940). After him are Pitbull (1981), Al Jarreau (1940), Joseph Kosuth (1945), Adrien Brody (1973), Thelonious Monk (1917), and Ronald Wayne (1934).

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Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, William Gibson ranks 118. Before him are Nellie Bly (1864), Ed Bradley (1941), Dalton Trumbo (1905), Eleanor H. Porter (1868), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), and Clifford D. Simak (1904). After him are Thomas Pynchon (1937), Edith Wharton (1862), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Harriet Jacobs (1813), Tess Gerritsen (1953), and Roger Zelazny (1937).

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