William Gibson
William Gibson
William Ford Gibsonis an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 March 1948
CityConway, SC
CountryUnited States of America
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me
This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.
The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.
The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.
The street has its own use for things.
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.