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
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
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.
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.