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William Gibson
b. 1948·American-Canadian
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian author born on March 17, 1948, widely regarded as the father of cyberpunk science fiction. He coined the term "cyberspace" in his landmark 1984 debut novel Neuromancer, which anchors The Sprawl Trilogy alongside Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. His visionary fiction anticipated the internet age and has influenced technology, culture, and countless writers in the decades since.
