Что (кто) такое William Gibson - определение
![[[Bruce Sterling]], co-author with Gibson of the short story "[[Red Star, Winter Orbit]]" (1983) and the 1990 steampunk novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce Sterling sn-ed.jpg?width=200 "[[Bruce Sterling]], co-author with Gibson of the short story \"[[Red Star, Winter Orbit]]\" (1983) and the 1990 steampunk novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]''")
![[[William S. Burroughs]] at his 70th birthday party in 1984. Burroughs, more than any other [[beat generation]] writer, was an important influence on the adolescent Gibson.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Burroughs1983 cropped.jpg?width=200 "[[William S. Burroughs]] at his 70th birthday party in 1984. Burroughs, more than any other [[beat generation]] writer, was an important influence on the adolescent Gibson.")
![The [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge]], a fictional squatted version of which constitutes the setting for Gibson's [[Bridge trilogy]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cables in Virtual Light.jpg?width=200 "The [[San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge]], a fictional squatted version of which constitutes the setting for Gibson's [[Bridge trilogy]]")
![William Gibson in Bloomsbury, London in September 2007. His fiction is hailed by critics for its characterization of [[late capitalism]], [[postindustrial society]] and the portents of the [[information age]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hacking the Gibson in Wagamamas.jpg?width=200 "William Gibson in Bloomsbury, London in September 2007. His fiction is hailed by critics for its characterization of [[late capitalism]], [[postindustrial society]] and the portents of the [[information age]].")
![Gibson has often collaborated with [[performance art]]ists such as theatre group [[La Fura dels Baus]], here performing at the [[Singapore Arts Festival]] in May 2007.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/La Fura Dels Baus Dreams In Flight.jpg?width=200 "Gibson has often collaborated with [[performance art]]ists such as theatre group [[La Fura dels Baus]], here performing at the [[Singapore Arts Festival]] in May 2007.")
![Gibson is renowned for his visionary influence on—and predictive attunement to—technology, design, urban sociology and [[cyberculture]]. Image captured in the Scylla bookstore of Paris, France on March 14, 2008.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scylla- a book of the dead.jpg?width=200 "Gibson is renowned for his visionary influence on—and predictive attunement to—technology, design, urban sociology and [[cyberculture]]. Image captured in the Scylla bookstore of Paris, France on March 14, 2008.")
![Aside from his short stories and novels, Gibson has written several film screenplays and [[television episode]]s.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Neuromancer.jpg?width=200 "Aside from his short stories and novels, Gibson has written several film screenplays and [[television episode]]s.")
Википедия
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-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 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. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
After expanding on the story in Neuromancer with two more novels (Count Zero in 1986, and Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk.
In the 1990s, Gibson composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which explored the sociological developments of near-future urban environments, postindustrial society, and late capitalism. Following the turn of the century and the events of 9/11, Gibson emerged with a string of increasingly realist novels—Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), and Zero History (2010)—set in a roughly contemporary world. These works saw his name reach mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. His most recent novels, The Peripheral (2014) and Agency (2020), returned to a more overt engagement with technology and recognizable science fiction themes.
In 1999, The Guardian described Gibson as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades", while The Sydney Morning Herald called him the "noir prophet" of cyberpunk. Throughout his career, Gibson has written more than 20 short stories and 12 critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers, and musicians. His work has been cited as influencing a variety of disciplines: academia, design, film, literature, music, cyberculture, and technology.
