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William Gibson
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(person)William Gibson - Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993).

Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace".

Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.


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He produces no evidence of any kind for this claim, derived from nothing other than Gibsonian "insight.
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Schwartz, Stephen / New Criterion
What is actually happening to `work,' and is it taking us towards a Gibsonian world?
Globalization and the nation-state by Gwynne Dyer / Behind the Headlines
This transforms the debate from Dick's insistence on an absolute cleavage between classes of things--"humans" and "machines"--to a Gibsonian fashion crime, like too much plastic surgery.
Canadian science fiction comes of age: Johnny Mnemonic and Screamers ... by Noah Cowan / Take One
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