William Gibson Biography

William Gibson, Writer

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Born as	William Ford Gibson
Occup.	Writer
From	USA
Spouse	Deborah Thompson
Born	March 17, 1948 Conway, South Carolina, United States
Age	75 years

William Ford Gibson, a respected American-Canadian author, was born upon March 17, 1948, in Conway, South Carolina, USA. Mostly referred to as a pioneer of the cyberpunk style, Gibson has crafted a selection of seriously acclaimed books, narratives, and essays that have actually ended up being a prominent pressure in the realms of sci-fi and modern-day innovation.

Gibson's early life was marked by tragedy when his papa, a designer, died in a crash while working abroad. His mommy subsequently determined to relocate them to Wytheville, Virginia, where Gibson invested the rest of his childhood. A shy and introspective kid, Gibson found solace in reading, especially functions by H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, as well as Ray Bradbury.

Upon graduation in 1967, Gibson made the decision to avert the draft by taking a trip to Canada. He at some point worked out in Vancouver, British Columbia, a city that he still calls residence today. In the very early 1970s, Gibson signed up in the University of British Columbia, where he pursued a significant in English literature. Throughout this time around, he started meddling creating, motivated by the counterculture activity and also the jobs of the Beat Generation.

In 1977, Gibson published his first narrative, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose", which showcased his innate skill for mixing futuristic situations with styles of human emotion and vulnerability. His literary job genuinely got energy in the 1980s, with the publication of a series of prominent and dynamic narratives that finished in the 1981 collection "Burning Chrome".

Gibson's seminal work, however, was the groundbreaking novel "Neuromancer", released in 1984. A transformative moment in the background of speculative fiction, "Neuromancer" presented the world to the idea of the online world as well as online truth, preparing for many future works and also prefiguring the internet itself. The unique amassed enormous appreciation, winning the respected Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Awards.

Adhering to the success of "Neuromancer", Gibson went on to complete the Sprawl trilogy with the novels "Count Zero" (1986) as well as "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (1988). Subsequently, he published the Bridge trilogy, that includes "Virtual Light" (1993), "Idoru" (1996), and "All Tomorrow's Parties" (1999).

In the new millennium, Gibson remained to press the boundaries of sci-fi with the Blue Ant trilogy, comprised of "Pattern Recognition" (2003), "Spook Country" (2007), and "Zero History" (2010). These books deftly discovered styles of security, globalization, as well as company power in a post-9/ 11 globe.

Aside from his considerable payments to the world of literature, William Gibson has actually welcomed different forms of media and also teamed up with a selection of significant figures. Among them are efficiency artist Laurie Anderson, artists U2 and Lou Reed, and also movie director Kathryn Bigelow. His cultural impact spans much beyond the pages of his novels, showing the very technical globe that he assisted to picture.

Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by William, under the main topics: Technology - Time - Work.

Related authors: Kathryn Bigelow (Director), Isaac Asimov (Scientist), H.G. Wells (Author), Ray Bradbury (Writer), Robert Sheckley (Author), Lou Reed (Musician), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Philip K. Dick (Writer), Laurie Anderson (Musician), Bruce Sterling (Writer)

William Gibson Famous Works:

1984 Neuromancer (Novel)
1986 Count Zero (Novel)
1988 Mona Lisa Overdrive (Novel)
1993 Virtual Light (Novel)
1996 Idoru (Novel)
2003 Pattern Recognition (Novel)

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17 Famous quotes by William Gibson

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another"

"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary"

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet"

"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil"

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human"

"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience"

"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye"

"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding"

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts"

"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort"

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it"

"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old"

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet"

"Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?"

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station"

"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms"

"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information"