William Gibson

William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer born in Conway, South Carolina in 1948, widely credited as the father of the cyberpunk genre. His debut novel Neuromancer, published in 1984, was the first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards simultaneously, and introduced the concept of cyberspace to popular culture. His visionary fiction anticipated the internet, virtual reality, and the cultural dominance of technology decades before they became reality. He has published over a dozen novels that trace a path from dystopian science fiction to eerily prescient near-future thrillers.