William Gibson
Writing
March 17, 1948 (78 years old)
Conway, South Carolina, USA
9
Acting Credits
Biography
William Ford Gibson is 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...
Known For
Filmography
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2020
as Author William Gibson
7.8
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Himself
7
My Love, My Umbrella
2001
as Philosopher
10
No Maps for These Territories
2000
as Self
6.6
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
as Self
9
New Nightmares
1993
as Himself
Cyberpunk
1990
as Himself
7.2
Decade
1989
as Self
8.5
Prisoners of Gravity
1989
as Self
5.9