William Gibson

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the cyberpunk subgenre and coining the term "cyberspace." He is best known for his debut novel Neuromancer (1984), which won the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards and envisioned the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. He is the author of numerous novels including the Sprawl trilogy, the Bridge trilogy, and more recent works such as The Peripheral and Agency. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.