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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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Tony award winning playwright William Gibson, most famous for the Broadway hit "The Miracle Worker," has died at the age of 94.
'Miracle Worker' playwright Gibson dies: funeral home by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Also killed in the Coventry blast and honoured on Saturday, were Second Lieutenant Alexander Fraser Campbell and Sappers William Gibson, Richard Gilchrest, Jack Plumb, Ronald William Skelton and Ernest Arthur Stote.
Hero never to be forgotten; PROUD FAMILY GATHER TO SEE MEMORIAL ... by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
But Derry's determination to get the ball forward was rewarded in fortuitous fashion in the 66th minute when Pat's full-back, William Gibson, headed a Ruaidhri Higgins cross past his advancing keeper, Barry Ryan, at a capacity Brandywell erupted.
Football: Derry gift from Pats; Derry C 1 St Pats 0 by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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