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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks o…
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entertainment · American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist (born 1948) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · prose writer · executive producer · television actor · film actor · film screenwriter · also William Gibson, William Ford Gibson, Gibson
Born 17 March 1948 · Q188987
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2026· 13 entries
“Just after a pre-bedtime neck scratching session, g’nite”
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“Well this is terrifying futurism.com/artificial-i...”
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“Sometimes I’ll be doing something and recall the mayor NYC now has. Instant good feeling!”
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“And now I'm reading this! #booksky”
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“Debbie Harry by Roberta Bayley 1979 💛”
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“Hey: Polls mean shit if you don't get out and vote”
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“'The Met Office has said more heatwaves may be on the horizon, and 15 counties could see temperatures of 31C or more at the start of September. They are all in eastern or south-eastern England with forecast temperatures as high as 34C within the next fortnight.' www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...”
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“This image was taken yesterday on a flight from Calgary to Vancouver. It's a massive plume of smoke from a wildfire in Yale BC.”
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“That Emily Dickinson line was bound to end up on a T-shirt one day.”
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“This week's US heat dome is expected to become the strongest on the planet, the fourth time this summer that description has applied to a U.S. heat event. The U.S. withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement in January 2025 and has not rejoined.”
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The New Criterion: “Remembering ‘200 Years of American Sculpture,’” by Eric Gibson
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Public attention spiked: 10,823 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.6× the usual 1,018, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1366501765 by ~2026-42062-62 (talk) source would be needed, and I don't see why how tall a writer is is relevant
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2024· 1 entry
“That’s what they’re doing. https:// social.perceptiveconstructs.co m/objects/4687af1d-0824-4f0c-bfae-bb49c83c5d42”
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2023· 8 entries
“The sheer novelty of being able repost this guy! https:// mastodon.social/@bruces/111645 252946688185”
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“12 minutes PST into Boxing Day, my favorite day of the holidays.”
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“Precisely. https:// zirk.us/@JamesGleick/111512132 985999888”
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“Not sure why, but I initially assumed the Kissinger’s Dead posts to be a joke, like that couldn’t really happen.”
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“We’re doing that thing with BookBub starting today. The ebook price will be lowered across all US retailers to $1.99 from November 9 to November 16, and an email will be going out from BookBub promoting the discount on November 11.”
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“Neither can I, now and again. https:// mastodon.online/@Strange_Bundl e/111305453664823797”
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“Scary shit. https:// mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1 11303158768347067”
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“I think our nervous systems literally grew accustomed to these design mechanics.😎 https:// wandering.shop/@Archergal/1112 76610100085215”
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Mona Lisa Overdrive”.
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The Guardian: William Gibson: ‘I read Naked Lunch when it was still quasi-illicit’
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2020· 5 entries
The Guardian: William Gibson: 'I'm always striving not to be noticed'
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The Guardian: Agency by William Gibson review – a world in an instant
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After being delayed from an initial announced release date of December 2018
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The Guardian: Agency by William Gibson review – back to a frightful future
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The Guardian: William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was'
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2019· 2 entries
Audible released an audio drama version of Gibson's script, adapted by Dirk Maggs and with Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprising their roles
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,098 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: New William Gibson novel set in a world where Hillary Clinton won
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Gibson's comic/graphic novel Archangel was published
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (2016).
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“I wait to see what people call them;”
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2015· 1 entry
Was an adaptation of Gibson's short story Dogfight by BAFTA award-winning writer and director Simon Pummell
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Locus Poll Award for Distrust That Particular Flavor (2013).
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And read an excerpt from the first chapter of the book entitled "The Gone Haptics"
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2012· 1 entry
Gibson released a collection of his non-fiction works entitled Distrust That Particular Flavor
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2008).
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Received honorary doctorates from Simon Fraser University and Coastal Carolina University
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2007· 2 entries
Said, "I have a 2005 PowerBook G4, a gig of memory, wireless router
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Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,015 times.
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2006· 1 entry
And Pattern Recognition was in the process of development by director Peter Weir, although according to Gibson the latter is no longer attached to the project
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2005· 1 entry
As part of the Time list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, Lev Grossman opined of Neuromancer: "There is no way to overstate how radical Gibson's first and best novel was when it first appeared
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2004· 1 entry
Attributed Neuromancer's seeming prescience to "my almost perfect ignorance of the technology I was extrapolating from"; when depicting things he knew something about, like impact printers, the book seems dated to later
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2002· 1 entry
Appearing alongside Douglas Coupland in the short film Mon Amour Mon Parapluie in which the pair played philosophers
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2000· 1 entry
Predicted it would lead to the death of the nation state
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1999· 2 entries
As "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades" in terms of influence, Gibson first achieved critical recognition with his debut novel, Neuromancer
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The Guardian described Gibson as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades", while The Sydney Morning Herald called him the "noir prophet" of cyberpunk
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1998· 2 entries
“Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto”
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Contributed the introduction to the spin-off publication Art of the X-Files
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1997· 1 entry
A collaboration with critically acclaimed Vancouver-based contemporary dance company Holy Body Tattoo and Gibson's friend and future webmaster Christopher Halcrow
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Aurora Awards for Virtual Light (1995).
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Identified the advent, evolution and growth of the Internet as "one of the most fascinating and unprecedented human achievements of the century", a new kind of civilization that is – in terms of significance – on a pa
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1994· 1 entry
Published “CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 52,143 times.
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1993· 2 entries
Gibson contributed lyrics and featured as a guest vocalist on Yellow Magic Orchestra's Technodon album, and wrote lyrics to the track "Dog Star Girl" for Deborah Harry's Debravation
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("the Al Gore people"), in which they argued against the digital divide and "appalled everyone" by proposing that all schools be put online, with education taking place over the Internet
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1992· 3 entries
Awarded Tähtivaeltaja Award (1992).
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The mystery of Agrippa remained hidden for 20 years
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And its success drew attention to the nascent steampunk literary genre of which it remains the best-known work
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1991· 1 entry
A film they planned on shooting in the Walled City of Kowloon until the city was demolished in 1993
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1990· 2 entries
Gibson contributed to "Visionary San Francisco", an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art shown from June 14 to August 26
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Which they soon expanded into the novel-length alternate history story The Difference Engine (1990)
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Aurora Awards for Mona Lisa Overdrive (1989).
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1988· 7 entries
“Ciemność. Syk klimatyzatora. Miękkość bawełnianej pościeli. Telefon pod poduszką. Odgłosy ulicznego ruchu stłumione przez wypełnione gazem okna. Opuszcza go całe napięcie i strach…”
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“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.”
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“Loss is not without its curious advantages for the artist. Major traumatic breaks are pretty common in the biographies of artists I respect.”
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“Wyobrażasz sobie, że słyszysz w samym środku rozszeptanej ciszy nocy Nieba rozpad paradygmatów, cichutki brzęk skorup teorii rozsypujących się na lśniący pył, gdy jakiś bank mózgów ulega redukcji do najlapidarniejszego z historycznych przypisów, a to wszystko w czasie, którego twój uszkodzony podróżnik potrzebuje do mruknięcia pod nosem jakiegoś podsłuchanego fragmentu.”
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Asked about the Bulletin Board System jargon in his writing, Gibson answered "I'd never so much as touched a PC when I wrote Neuromancer"; he was familiar, he said, with the science-fiction community, which overlapped wi
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“Ugięła kolana, bose stopy nacisnęły spłaszczony zbiornik gazu, a Zabójczy Podest zafalował w odpowiedzi. Wydawał dźwięk, jakby świat się kończył, jakby liny podtrzymujące niebiosa pękały i zwijały się na niebie.”
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“To zabawne, Sandii, jak czasem wydajesz mi się nierzeczywista. Fox powiedział kiedyś, że jesteś ektoplazmą, duchem przywoływanym przez ekstrema ekonomii. Upiorem nowego wieku, materializującym się w tysiącach łóżek świata Hyattów, świata Hiltonów.”
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work for Neuromancer (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
And Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the sc
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1985· 5 entries
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novel for Neuromancer (1985).
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Awarded Ditmar Award for Neuromancer (1985).
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Awarded Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Neuromancer (1985).
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Awarded Philip K. Dick Award for Neuromancer (1985).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for Neuromancer (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Asking "what if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about
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1981· 1 entry
Gibson's stories appeared in Omni and Universe 11, wherein his fiction developed a bleak, film noir feel
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1980· 2 entries
Or 1981, Gibson found a kindred spirit in fellow panelist, punk musician and author John Shirley
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“s short story collection Heatseeker (1989). Shirley convinced Gibson to write a story for the television series Max Headroom for which Shirley had written several scripts, but the network canceled the series. Gibson and Sterling collaborated again on the short story”
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1977· 1 entry
Studied at University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Arts (1977).
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1972· 1 entry
With Gibson looking after their first child while they lived off his wife's teaching salary
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1970· 1 entry
As they "couldn't afford to stay anywhere that had anything remotely like hard currency"
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1967· 1 entry
Elected to move to Canada in order "to avoid the Vietnam war draft"
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-03-17.
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