William Gibson : American-Canadian, Speculative Fiction Writer, Essayist, Pioneering Cyberpunk Author

March 17, 1948 — ?

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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"...

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