He grew up shy and bookish, discovering science fiction and the literature of the beats at a precociously early age. Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, and spent much of his youth in Virginia with his widowed mother. Science fiction owes an enormous debt to William Gibson, the cyberpunk pioneer who revolutionized the genre with his startling stories of tough, alienated loners adrift in a world of sinister high technology. William Gibson's feat of imagination, embodied by the seminal "cyberpunk" novel Neuromancer and subsequent sci-fi techno titles, was in presaging the Information Age and coining some of its language even as he remained a technological laggard who eschewed computers. About the Author, William Gibson William Gibson
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