No other Canadian speculative fiction writer, and possibly no other Canadian writer of fiction, has had as great an impact on late-twentieth-century culture as has William Gibson. Beginning with a series of short stories in science-fiction magazines in...

Creator of the concept "Cyberspace," science-fiction author William Gibson developed a new fictional landscape for his edgy work--a hallucinatory three-dimensional region built from computer data gathered around the globe. Inventing this fictional...

When science fiction author William Gibson wrote his first two novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero, on a manual typewriter, he knew almost nothing about computers. "When people started talking about them, I'd go to sleep," he told the Missouri Review,...

An American science-fiction writer most renowned for coining the term "cyberspace" in Neuromancer (1984), the book hailed by many critics and technology buffs as the seminal work in the cyberpunk genre, William Gibson is most poignant in...

For other persons named William Gibson, see William Gibson (disambiguation). William Ford Gibson, born March 17 1948 (1948-03-17) (age 60), in Conway, South Carolina is an American-Canadian[15] writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the...

In the following essay, Lindberg discusses Gibson as a postmodern author and examines the roles of authority, time, and memory in his writing.

In the following essay, Fabijancic discusses the motifs of space and vision in Gibson's fiction within the context of modern multinational capitalist society.

In the following essay, Booker outlines the defining characteristics of Gibson's fiction, emphasizing his attitude toward and treatment of technology.