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William Gibson

(1927–2006) Ice Hockey Player Canada

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William Gibson was an ice hockey player from Canada, best known for The Miracle Worker.

Quick Facts About William Gibson

Born
April 22, 1927
Died
August 29, 2006
Nationality
Canada
Profession
Ice Hockey Player
Notable works
The Miracle Worker

About William Gibson

William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. 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, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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