![]() Gibson has earned a reputation as a super sharp writer. ![]() As a pioneer of the cyberpunk genre, he not only invented the term cyberspace but also collaborated with Bruce Sterling in establishing the steampunk sub-genre in The Difference Engine (1990). But the term cyberspace was first used in his short story compilation Burning Chrome (1986). What he produced became a genre-defining piece of science fiction.īefore Neuromancer’s release in 1984, Gibson’s stories appeared in sci-fi journals in 1977. After watching the first parts of the now-legendary film Bladerunner (1982) and having already written a third of Neuromancer, he thought the novel was ‘done for.’ He subsequently re-wrote the first two-thirds of the book twelve times. Neuromancer (1984) signalled Gibson’s emergence as a serious writer, although it very nearly didn’t. ![]() He spent years adrift in the relative wilderness, sometimes homeless, before the simple beauty of being commissioned to write a novel - with a deadline - shocked him into writing Neuromancer in the early 80s. Gibson became immersed in the counterculture of the late 60s and 70s and told his draft interviewers that he honestly had intended to try every mind-altering substance known to man. He was born in South Carolina into what he considered a fairly unremarkable ‘monoculture’ and lost both parents early in life. ![]() William Gibson (1948) is an American fiction novelist and essayist whose career began in 1977 with the publication of his short story ‘Fragments of a Hologram Rose ’ in the science-fiction journal Unearth. ![]()
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