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William F. Gibson

17 March 1948 -

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging 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 Web. (Source)

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Protected DAISY, Accessible book, Fiction, In library, Science fiction, Business intelligence, Literature, OverDrive, American Science fiction, Computer hackers, Computers, Conspiracies, Cyberspace, Friendship, Hugo Award Winner, Information superhighway, Intelligence officers, Nervous system, Psychology, Reality, Rock musicians, Space and time, Twenty-first century, Virtual reality, Women private investigators
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London, California, England, Japan, London (England), San Francisco (Calif.), Chiba, Earth Orbit, Istanbul, San Francisco, Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)
People
Ada Byron, Berry Rydell, Case, Charles Babbage, Charles Babbage (1791-1871), Laurence Oliphant, Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), Molly Millions
Time
19th century, 20th century, The not so distant future, and a little to the left.

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History Created April 1, 2008 · 9 revisions
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March 31, 2017 Edited by Clean Up Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
July 22, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Edited without comment.
October 15, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
October 14, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar add middle initial
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import