William Gibson

Known for: Writer
Date of birth: 1948. March 17.
Place of birth: Conway, South Carolina, United States of America

William Ford Gibson is an American and 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 bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of ...