William Gibson

Gibson fascinates me because he coined cyberspace and then spent decades politely refusing the cyberpunk crown that critics insisted on handing him. To me that resistance is the whole point: he was never forecasting the future so much as describing the strangeness already humming under the present. Sweeping the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards with Neuromancer in one year is almost unfair, but what I admire most is the prose itself, dense and cool and quotable. A South Carolina kid who rewired how we imagine technology deserves every bit of his quiet legend.

Name (English)

William Gibson

Name (Japanese)

ウィリアム・ギブスン

Reading

うぃりあむ・ぎぶすん

Born

March 17, 1948 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

Origin

Conway, South Carolina, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / screenwriter / science fiction writer / prose writer

University

University of British Columbia

Awards & achievements

• 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel
• 1985 Hugo Award for Best Novel
• 1985 Philip K. Dick Award
• 1987 Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work
• 1995 Aurora Awards
• 1989 Aurora Awards
• 1985 Science Fiction Chronicle Award
• 1985 Ditmar Award

• Official sitehttps://williamgibsonbooks.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/GreatDismal
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gibson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%96%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188987

Tags

• South Carolina
• writer
• novelist
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-17

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