William Gibson

William Gibson
Biographical details
Birth date	March 17th 1948
Birth place	Conway, South Carolina

William Gibson (1948-) is an author. He is one of the earliest and most influential Cyberpunk authors, largely remembered for his novel Neuromancer.

Life

Born in the coastal city of Conway, South Carolina in March of 1948, Gibson was born to the manager of a large construction company. This led to the young Gibson spending most of his childhood in Wytheville in Virginia - where his parents grew up. Gibson attended the Pines Elementary School in nearby Norfolk, though his teachers lacked encouragement in his reading ability and his father choked to death while William was still at the school.

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Writing style

A major and extremely influential Cyberpunk author, most of Gibson's novels are set in the near future (for whatever time period they were written in) and feature somewhat advanced technology.

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Notable works

• Burning Chrome - a collection of short stories
• The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling) - an early steampunk novel
• Distrust That Particular Flavor - a collection of essays
• Archangel - a graphic novel about time travelers from a devastated Earth travelling to 1945
• William Gibson's Alien 3 - a graphic novel adaptation of Gibson's largely canned script for Alien 3

Sprawl trilogy

• Neuromancer - Gibson's debut novel, shows the last heist of a criminal
• Count Zero - shows a mercenary being reactivated in a new body
• Mona Lisa Overdrive - shows a young girl meeting a celebrity who can naturally tap into cyberspace

Bridge trilogy

• Skinner's Room - a short story
• Virtual Light - shows a bicycle manager in a split California
• Idoru - shows a rock star trying to marry a possibly virtual media star
• All Tomorrow's Parties - shows someone who can view "nodal points"

Blue Ant trilogy

• Pattern Recognition - features a marketing consultant who is sensitive to symbols
• Spook Country - shows a Cuban immigrant, a journalist, and a junkie crossing paths
• Zero History - shows characters from Spook Country reuniting

Jackpot trilogy (note: not yet complete)

• The Peripheral - about a rural American woman and a London publicist
• Agency - about an app-whisperer meeting a sentient AI

Gallery

The original cover of Neuromancer (1984)

The original cover of Count Zero (1986)

The original cover of Burning Chrome (1986)

The original cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)

The original cover of The Difference Engine (1990)

The original cover of Virtual Light (1993)

The original cover of Idoru (1996)

The original cover of All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)

The original cover of Pattern Recognition (2003)

The original cover of Spook Country (2007)

The original cover of Zero History (2010)

The original cover of Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

The original cover of The Peripheral (2014)

The original cover of Archangel (2016-2017)

The original cover of William Gibson's Alien 3 (2018-2019)

The original cover of Agency (2020)

See also

• Neal Stephenson
• William S. Burroughs
• Bruce Bethke
• John Shirley
• Lewis Shiner
• Raymond Chandler
• Philip K. Dick
• K.W. Jeter

Works of William Gibson

Miscellany The Difference Engine (written with Bruce Sterling), Skinner's Room, Distrust That Particular Flavor, Archangel, William Gibson's Alien 3 Burning Chrome Fragments of a Hologram Rose, Johnny Mnemonic, The Gernsback Continuum, Hinterlands, The Belonging Kind (written with John Shirley), Burning Chrome, Red Star, Winter Orbit (written with Bruce Sterling), New Rose Hotel, The Winter Market, Dogfight (written with Michael Swanwick) Sprawl trilogy Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive Bridge trilogy Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties Blue Ant trilogy Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History Jackpot trilogy The Peripheral, Agency, Jackpot (not yet published) Major characters Molly Millons, Case, Conroy, Christopher Mitchell, Bobby Newmark, Marly Krushkova, Virek, Turner, Mona, Kumiko Yanaka, Slick Henry, Angie Mitchell, Berry Rydell, Chevette Washington, Svobodov and Orlovsky, Loveless, Lucius Warbaby, Shinya Yamazaki, Skinner, Colin Laney, Rez, Rei Toei, Chia Pet McKenzie, Cody Harwood, Cayce Pollard, Hubertus Bigend, Dorotea Benedetti, Bernard Stonestreet, Parkaboy, Boone Chu, Voytek Biroshak, Damien Pease, Hobbs Baranov, Ivy, Hollis Henry, Tito, Brown, Bobby Chombo, Flynne Fisher, Burton Fisher, Wilf Netherton, Verity Jane, Eunice, Lowbeer, Rainey