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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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In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing…

Creating

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If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer…

Absolutes

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“She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand,…

Distressing

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If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and…

Am

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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is.…

Enough

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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final…

Finals

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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great…

Active

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The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public…

1930s

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The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry…

Amount

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If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't…

Another

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“A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken…

Alone in the dark

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“It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent places of her…

Chat

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“She was talking about those odds and ends of “futuristic” Thirties and Forties architecture you pass daily in American cities without noticing;…

Futuristic

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There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may…

Cease

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“...I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had…

Time

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“Lucas knows, yeah. The last seven, eight years, there’s been funny stuff out there, out on the console cowboy circuit. The new…

Lucas

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“You saw a double. A hologram perhaps. Many things, Marly, are perpetrated in my name. Aspects of my wealth have become autonomous,…

Wealth

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I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for…

Adult life

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“It was sometimes best, when you came to the mystery that was art, to come as a child. The child saw things…

Art

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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took…

Buried

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“You will come with us. We are at home with situations of legal ambiguity. The treaties under which our arm of the…

Law

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I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that…

Dismayed

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I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite…

Invites

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I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that…

Acquire

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It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is.…

Accounts

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“It will be like watching one of her own dreams on television. Some vast and deeply personal insult to any ordinary notion…

Dream

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I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going…

Culture

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I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often…

Character

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“Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also…

Conspiracy theory

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“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she…

Another day

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Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then…

Clockwork

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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Billions

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I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers…

Accepting

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“Terrorism,” said the rental. “We prefer not to use that term,” said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to…

Candle

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When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I…

Asian

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I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone…

Degrees

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I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I…

Big fan

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I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have…

Array

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“There are no backwaters where things can breed—our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and…

American literature

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I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact…

Anarchy

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