William Gibson
William Ford Gibson is known for coining the language used in cyberspace when he published Neuromancer and other science-fiction techno titles. He is called the Father of Cyberpunk. Born on March 17, 1948 in South Carolina, Gibson won a Hugo, Nebula, and a Philip K. Dick Award for Neuromancer.
His family traveled a lot until his father died from a choking accident when Gibson was only six. He and his mother then moved to Virginia where he stayed until being sent to private boy's school in Arizona. It was there that he began to discover authors other than the science fiction writers he had previously obsessed over. He says he was doing well until his mother died, an event which eventually led to his dropping out of school and moving to Canada (in part to avoid being drafted).
While there are frequent rumors that Gibson still writes using a manual typewriter-an attractive ironic hook when discussing a writer of technological novels-he says that the lure of the Internet has been too strong and that not only does he own a computer, but he even has an e-mail address. In a biography he provided to his publisher, he told his readers, "I do have an email address, yes, but, no, I won't give it to you. I am one and you are many, and even if you are, say, twenty-seven in grand global total, that's still too many. Because I need to have a life and waste time and write."
Not only does Gibson have an e-mail, but for a while he even had a blog, a blog that is still online, though he does not contribute to it. As he said in his last entry, if he is blogging, he is not writing a novel. He said that blogging was a vacation for him, a low-impact activity that was enjoyable but was not the same as writing fiction.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Virtual Light |
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Count Zero |
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Burning Chrome |
All Tomorrow's Parties |
Mona Lisa Overdrive |
Pattern Recognition |
The Difference Engine |
Johnny Mnemoic: The Screenplay |
