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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.

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“And now it's late, close to the wolfing hour of soul-lack. But she knows, lying curled here, behind him, in the darkness…

Darkness

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“Do you always wear Malaysian imitations of Brooks Brothers blue oxford button-downs, Mr. Laney?" Laney had looked down at his shirt, or…

Brooks brothers

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I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about…

Clumsy

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“Tokyu Hands assumes that the customer is very serious about something. If that happens to be shining a pair of shoes, and…

Fashion

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When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine…

Age

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“[Slitscan's audience] is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally…

Perpetually Hungry

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If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A…

Artifact

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Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of…

Dig deep

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I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with…

Beautiful

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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the…

Cyberspace

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“How it was, when you lost things, it was like you only knew for the first time that you'd ever had them.…

Every morning

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“He was like a kid who’d grown up beside an ocean, taking it as much for granted as he took the sky,…

Cyberspace

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I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some…

Art

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Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this…

Asian

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“The full-on Townsend-Moon hooter. She only ever found this problematic in males who hadn’t become pop musicians; it seemed, then, in some…

Music

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“The box was nearly finished now, she thought, although it moved so quickly, in the padded claws, that it was difficult to…

Box

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“That was before you guys turned up, the new hoodoo team. I knew this street samurai got a job working for a…

Hoodoo

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“He slotted some ice, connected the construct, and jacked in. It was exactly the sensation of someone reading over his shoulder. He…

Construct

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“Well,' Rydell said, trying to pick up his end, 'I was watching this one old movie last night-' Sublett perked up. 'Which…

Old movie

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[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant…

Art

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“They'd run all these tests on him and decided he wasn't racist. He wasn't, either, but not because he thought about it…

Racism

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“The other presented in far more abstract form: an only vaguely human figure, the space where its head should have been was…

Ground zero

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I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far…

Broadcast

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I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course…

Comfortable

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A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time.…

Character

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I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful…

Access

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“And Bobby was working on a new theory of personal deportment; he didn’t quite have the whole thing yet, but part of…

New Theory

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Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making…

Art making

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I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word…

Function

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“So, before he got sick, he used to tear up her hardware, the designer's, and put the real parts into cases he'd…

Computers

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