Virtual Light (1993) is set in 21st-century California, a wasteland where technology exists alongside poverty, violence and greed.
In the dystopian novel The Difference Engine (1990, in collaboration with Bruce Sterling), William Gibson evokes an alternative 19th-century Britain dominated by the calculation, measurement and severely practical reason resulting from the invention of a computer. Much of the trilogy's action takes place in a virtual landscape of data called cyberspace, a term that Gibson himself coined in his 1982 short story "Burning Chrome." Dick Awards and was followed by Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). William Gibson's best-known novels comprise the Neuromancer trilogy Neuromancer (1984), which features a data thief protagonist who can link his mind with the world-spanning computer matrix, won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. William Gibson has been dubbed "the poet laureate of cyberspace." His detailed projection of cybernetic and bioengineering technologies, however, reveals a deep ambivalence toward technology itself, as his characters find their selfhood emptied into computerized instruments. His fiction, mostly set in a decadent, gritty near-future of mega-conglomerates and computer networks, is closely associated with contemporary science fiction's cyberpunk movement, of which he is considered a founder. Gibson published his first short story while he was a student at UBC.
He later settled in Vancouver, where he completed a bachelor of arts degree at the University of British Columbia. An important science fiction writer, William Gibson was raised in Virginia and moved to Toronto in 1969 to avoid the military draft. William Ford Gibson, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter (b at Conway, South Carolina ).
The science fiction writer wrote the script for the film Johnny Mnemonic (courtesy Maclean's).
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