William Gibson date of birth:
March 17, 1948
How old is William Gibson?
78
Where was William Gibson born?
Conway, South Carolina, USA
How tall is William Gibson?
6' 6" (198 cm)
What is William Gibson nationality?
American
What is William Gibson's occupation?
Novelist
What genre is William Gibson's work?
Speculative fiction
Short Biography
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and essayist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisioning cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web.