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"I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here. "

William Ford Gibson, born March 17, 1948, is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web.

Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became an introverted teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture and after settling in Vancouver eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humans – a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre.

Although much of Gibson's reputation has remained associated with Neuromancer, his work has continued to evolve. After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre—steampunk—with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling. In the 1990s, he composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which focused on sociological observations of near-future urban environments and late capitalism. His most recent novels— Spook Country (2007) and Zero History (2010) —are set in a contemporary world and have put his work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time.

Gibson is one of the best-known North American science fiction writers, fêted by The Guardian in 1999 as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades". Gibson has written more than twenty short stories and nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), and has contributed articles to several major publications and collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, design, academia, cyberculture, and technology.

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Gibson, William - All Tomorrow's Parties (Signed, 1st)

Author Signed Hardcover. 1999 NY: Putnam First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread, flawless dustjacket, signed by author. Each dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

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Gibson, William - Distrust That Particular Flavor (Signed, 1st)

Gibson, William - Distrust That Particular Flavor (Signed, 1st)

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Gibson, William - Idoru (1st Edition)

1996 NY: Putnam First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread, flawless dustjacket.

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Gibson, William - Idoru (Signed, 1st)

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Gibson, William - Idoru (Signed, 1st, UK)

Author Signed UK Hardcover. 1996 LON: Viking First UK edition, first printing, mint/new unread in a flawless dust jacket, signed by the author. Each dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover.

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Gibson, William - Pattern Recognition (Advance Reading Copy)

2003 NY: Putnam Advance reading copy, mint, new/unread in pictorial wraps.

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Gibson, William - Pattern Recognition (Signed, 1st)

Gibson, William - Pattern Recognition (Signed, later printing)

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Gibson, William - Spook Country (Signed, 1st)

Gibson, William - Spook Country (Signed, 1st)

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Gibson, William - Zero History (Signed, 1st)

Gibson, William - Zero History (Signed, 1st)

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Bibliography

· Zero History (2010)

· Spook Country (2007)

· Pattern Recognition (2003)

· Neuromancer (1984)

· Idoru (1996)

· All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)

· Count Zero (1986)

Other Gibson Titles:

· Burning Chrome (1986)

· Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)

· Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay

· The Difference Engine [with Bruce Sterling] (1990)

· Virtual Light (1993)