William Gibson

William Ford Gibson, a dual citizen of both the United States and Canada, is a renowned speculative fiction writer and essayist whose innovative work has significantly contributed to the development of the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Gibson's writing career commenced in the late 1970s, marked by an early body of work that was characterized by its bleak, noir, and near-future narratives. These stories, which explored the profound impact of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humanity, skillfully blended the gritty, lowlife aspects of urban existence with the futuristic, high-tech innovations that were beginning to transform the world. This distinctive fusion of elements helped to create a distinctive iconography for the information age, long before the widespread adoption of the Internet in the 1990s.