William Gibson

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March 17, 1948
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Conway, South Carolina, United States
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William Gibson Life

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian science fiction writer and essayist who is best known as an early pioneer of cyberpunk.

His early works, beginning in the late 1970s, 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 he helped establish an iconography of the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.

Gibson used the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the term in his acclaimed debut book Neuromancer (1984).

Gibson's early works have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s. Gibson continued on the story in Neuromancer with two more books, effectively ending the Sprawl trilogy, and collaborating with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history book The Difference Engine (1990), which became a classic work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk.

Gibson wrote the Bridge trilogy of novels in the 1990s, which explored the sociological transitions of near-future urban environments, postindustrial society, and late capitalism.

Gibson released a series of increasingly realistic books following the turn of the century and the events of 9/11, including Pretun Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), and Zero History (2010), which all take place in a very modern setting.

For the first time, these books made it to mainstream bestseller lists.

His most recent book, The Peripheral (2014), returned to a more overt engagement with technology and recognizable science fiction concerns. Gibson was referred to by The Guardian (UK) in 1999 as "probably the most influential novelist of the past two decades," while the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) dubbed him the "noir prophet" of cyberpunk.

Gibson has published more than 20 short stories and ten critically acclaimed books (one in collaboration), contributed to numerous major journals, and performed extensively with performance artists, filmmakers, and musicians throughout his career.

His work has been cited as influencing a variety of fields, including academia, design, film, literature, jazz, literature, cinema, and electronics.

Early life

William Ford Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, and he spent the majority of his childhood in Wytheville, Virginia, a small town in the Appalachians, where his parents were born and raised. Due to his father's employment as the head of a large building company, Gibson's family moved often during his youth. Gibson attended Pines Elementary School in Norfolk, Virginia, where the teachers' inability to teach him to read was a point of dismay for his parents. Although Gibson was still a young child, a little over a year into his time at Pines Elementary, his father died in a restaurant when on a business trip. His mother, who was unable to tell William the bad news, had someone else alert him of the death. Gibson "grew up in an America as disconcerting and surreal as anything J. G. Ballard ever imagined," Tom Maddox said.

Gibson and his mother moved from Norfolk to Wytheville just a few days after his father's death. Gibson later referred to Wytheville as "a place where modernity had arrived to a certain degree but was deeply skeptical" and cites his initiation in science fiction, his "native literary tradition," which culminated in a feeling of abrupt exile. Gibson "wanted nothing more than to be a science fiction writer" at the age of 12. George Wythe High School, a basketball-obsessed boy, spent a few years in his room listening to records and reading books. He bought an anthology of Beat generation writing, thus increasing exposure to Allen Ginsberg's, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs' writings, dramatically altering Gibson's ideas of science fiction literature.

Gibson, a shy, overweight adolescent who grew up in a monoculture, "highly objectionable" and hid in science fiction, as well as writers such as Burroughs and Henry Miller. Gibson's mother was threatening to send him to a boarding school, but she was thrilled, as he responded eliously. Unable to afford his new school, Southern California, his then-chronically anxious and depressive mother, who had been in Wytheville since her husband's death, sent him to Southern Arizona School for Boys in Tucson. He resent the formality of the private boarding school, but was in retrospect grateful for the fact that it had compelled him to participate socially. He scored 148 out of 150 in the written section but 5 out of 150 in mathematics, to the dismay of his teachers.

Gibson left school early and became very lonely for a long time after his mother's death when he was 18 years old, heading to California and Europe and embedding himself in counterculture. "To prevent the Vietnam war draft," he moved to Canada in 1967. He openly told interviewers that his primary aim in life was to find every narcotic drug known to exist. After the hearing, Gibson said he "did not specifically evade the draft because they never bothered drafting me"; a week or two later, he went home and bought a bus ticket to Toronto and left a week or two later. Gibson said that his decision was motivated less by conscientious objection than by a desire to "sleep with hippie chicks" and indulge in hashish. In a 2008 interview, he debating the issue: in a 2008 interview: he elucidated on it:

Gibson was hired as the head of Toronto's first head shop, a drug store. Due to the occurrence of clinical depression, suicide, and hardcore opioid use, he found the city's émigré community of American draft dodgers unbearable. In a CBC newsreel article about hippie subculture in Yorkville, Toronto, where he was paid $500, the equivalent of 20 weeks' rent, which paid for his later travels, he appeared during the Summer of Love of 1967. Gibson spent the majority of the 1960s in Toronto, where he met Vancouverite Deborah Jean Thompson, who later moved to Europe, after a "brief, riot-torn spell" in the District of Columbia. Gibson has recalled that they concentrated their travels in European countries with fascist regimes and low exchange rates, including time on a Greek archipelago and Istanbul in 1970, because they "couldn't afford to remain somewhere that had nothing remotely similar to hard currency."

Gibson and Gibson married and settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1972, with Gibson looking after their first child when they lived off his wife's teaching salary. Gibson made a substantial part of his income during the 1970s by scouring Salvation Army thrift stores for underpriced artifacts, which would then move to specialty dealers. He decided that staying high college grades and thus qualify for generous student financial assistance, rather than working, at the University of British Columbia (UBC), earning "a desultory bachelor's degree in English" in 1977. He was exposed to a broader range of fiction than he would have otherwise read; something he credits with giving him insights that were otherwise inaccessible from science fiction's culture, including an appreciation of postmodernism. He took his first course on science fiction at UBC, taught by Susan Wood, at the end of which he was encouraged to write his first short story, "Fragments of a Hologram Rose."

Gibson stopped writing in the year after considering a master's degree in hard science fiction as fascist literature, and one critic said it expanded his collection of punk books. He worked at various occupations, including a three-year stint as teaching assistant on a film history course at his alma mater, during this period. Gibson, who was impatient at much of what he saw at a science fiction convention in Vancouver in 1980 or 1981, developed a similar passion for fellow panelist, punk musician, and author John Shirley. The two became instant and lifelong colleagues. Shirley advised Gibson to sell his early short stories and begin writing seriously.

Gibson and Lewis Shiner came into contact through Shirley, and they discovered that it was, as Sterling put it, "breakthrough stuff" and that they needed to "put down our preconceptions and pick up on this guy from Vancouver; this [was] the way forward." In 1981, Gibson read "Burning Chrome" – the first cyberspace short story, to an audience of four people, and then said that Sterling "completely understood it."

Gibson left Austin, Texas, for ArmadilloCon in October 1982, when Shiner joined Shirley, Sterling, and Shiner on a panel titled "Behind the Mirrorshades: A Look at Punk SF," where Shiner noted "the feeling of a movement solidified." Gibson left the cadre for Vancouver after a weekend of debate, MTV, Japan, fashion, opioids, and politics, announcing half-jokingly that "a new axis has been established." Together with Rudy Rucker, Sterling, Shiner, Shirley and Gibson went on to form the fundamental cyberpunk literary movement of the modern cyberpunk literary movement.

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William Gibson Career

Literary career

Gibson's early writings were mostly near-future tales about the human race's reliance on cybernetics and cyberspace (computer-simulated reality) technologies. In his first published short story "Fragments of a Human," his themes of hi-tech shanty towns, recorded or broadcast stimulation (later to be developed into the "sim-stim" package featured so heavily in Neuromancer), and dystopic intermingling of technology and humanity are already apparent. In the introduction of Gibson's short story collection Burning Chrome, his friend and fellow author Bruce Sterling described the former obsession as "Gibson's original one-two combination of lowlife and high technology."

Gibson's stories appeared in Omni and Universe 11, wherein his fiction developed a bleak, film noir feel. He deliberately distanced himself from science fiction (towards where he felt "an aesthetic revulsion"), to the extent that his greatest aim was to become "a minor cult figure, a sort of lesser Ballard." "People were just genuinely baffled" when Sterling began to publish the stories, he discovered. They literally couldn't parse the guy's paragraphs; the creative tropes he was inventing were completely beyond people's grasp."

Although Larry McCaffery has noted that these early short stories showcased glimpses of Gibson's ability, science fiction writer Darko Suvin has characterized them as "undoubtedly [cyberpunk's] best works," emphasizing the genre's "furthest horizon." Gibson's first book, Neuromancer, was inspired by the themes he created in the stories, the Sprawl setting of "Burning Chrome" and the person of Molly Millions from "Johnny Mnemonic" himself.

Terry Carr was commissioned by Terry Carr for the second series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was meant to exclusively feature debut novels. Gibson said he did not have a year to finish the novel, but felt the need to write a complete book was "four or five years away." After watching the first 20 minutes of Gibson's monumental cyberpunk film Blade Runner (1982), which was released before Gibson's writing a third of the story, he "figured [Neuromancer] was sunk, done for." From this remarkably fine film, almost everyone would assume I'd copped my mental appearance." He rewrote the first two-thirds of the book 12 times, afraid of losing the reader's interest and was promised to be "permanently shamed" following its publication; but what resulted was a major literary leap forward for a first-time novelist.

The neuromancer's emergence was not welcomed with enthusiasm, but it did spark a cultural nerve, becoming a goof-mouth hit. It was the first winner of the one-science fiction "triple crown" award, as well as the best paperback book award, with Nebula and Hugo Award as the year's best book and Philip K. Dick Award as the best paperback original, with more than 6.5 million copies sold worldwide.

"The archetypal cyberpunk work," Lawrence Person's "Notes Towards a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" (1998) named Neuromancer as "the first time to exacerbinate how innovative [Neuromancer] was when it first appeared." Larry McCaffery characterized the notion of the matrix in Neuromancer as a place where "digital dance with human consciousness is real and mechanized... multi-national information networks mutate and breed into new structures whose appearance and complexity are unimaginable, mystical, and above all nonhuman." Gibson later wrote about himself as an author, circa Neuromancer, "I'd buy him a drink but I don't know if I'd loan him any money," and referred to the book as "an adolescent's book." The success of Neuromancer was to blame for the 35-year-old Gibson's emergence from anonymity.

Although a large part of Gibson's fame has remained grounded in Neuromancer, his work has continued to evolve both conceptually and stylistically. He had intended to write The Log of the Mustang Sally, but then had to cancel on the deal with Arbor House due to the dustjacket art of their hardcover book Count Zero. Abandoning The Log of the Mustang Sally Gibson wrote Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), which, in the words of Larry McCaffery, "turned off the lights" on cyberpunk literature. It was the culmination of his previous two books, which were set in the same universe with shared characters, completing the Sprawl trilogy. Gibson's reputation was solidified by the trilogy, with both later books winning Nebula and Hugo Award and Locus SF Award nominations.

The Sprawl trilogy was followed by the 1990 book The Difference Engine, an alternative history book written in collaboration with Bruce Sterling. The novel, set in a technologically advanced Victorian era in the United Kingdom, was a departure from the authors' cyberpunk roots. In 1991 and 1992, it was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and its success attracted attention to the nascent steampunk literary style in which it remains the most popular segment.

Virtual Light (1993), a "darkly comic urban detective story," is Gibson's second series, as well as All Tomorrow's Parties (1999). In the near future, the first and third books in the trilogy center on San Francisco will explore Gibson's recurring themes of technological, physical,, and spiritual transcendence in a more grounded, matter-of-fact fashion than his first trilogy. Gibson's villains change from multinational corporations and artificial intelligences of the Sprawl trilogy to mass media in the Bridge trilogy, according to Salon's Andrew Leonard, namely tabloid television and the cult of celebrity. According to one study, Virtual Light depicts an "end-stage capitalism" in which private industry and the profit motive are brought to their logical conclusion. The argument about the mass media as a natural evolution of capitalism is the first line of the major Situationist work The Society of the Spectacle. Leonard's analysis called Idoru a "return to form" for Gibson, while analyst Steven Poole said that All Tomorrow's Parties reflected his transition from "science-fiction hotshot" to a wry sociologist of the near future.

Gibson began to write in a more realistic style, with continuous stories as a result of All Tomorrow's Parties. Gibson has acknowledged that traditional science fiction is no longer feasible "in a world lacking coherent 'nows' to continue from," science fiction writer John Clute has characterized it as "SF for the new century." Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), and Zero History (2010) are set in the same modern universe, "more or less the same one we live in now" — Gibson's books appear on mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. The novels, as well as the setting, include Hubertus Bigend and Pamela Mainwaring, employees of the enigmatic marketing firm Blue Ant.

When asked on Twitter what this collection of books should be called ("The Bigend Trilogy"), it should be titled "The Bigend Trilogy."

The Blue Ant Cycle?

What?

"I like books," Gibson replied. The Bigend books are a collection of stories about humans. However, "Blue Ant" rather than "Big End" has now become the common descriptor. Gibson said he did not name his trilogies because "I want to see what people call them," and he introduced "the Blue Ant books" in a tweet in 2016.

The independent growth of annotating fans, PR-Otaku and Node Magazine, was devoted to Pattern Recognition and Spook Country respectively, which was a phenomenon peculiar to this period. These websites followed the references and story elements in the novels and collated the findings, effectively creating hypertext versions of the novels. Critic John Sutherland characterized this phenomenon as threatening to "completely change the way literary criticism is carried out."

About 100 pages into writing Pattern Recognition, Gibson felt obliged to re-write the main character's backstory, which had been previously rendered implausible by the September 11, 2001 attacks; he described it as "the oddest encounter I've ever had with a piece of fiction." "In some ways, the true start of the 21st century" was seen as a nodal point in history, "an experience out of culture," he said. He is one of the first novelists to use the attacks to fuel his writing. A analysis of cultural transitions in post-September 11 America, including a revivalist ethnoism and the "infantilization of society," became a prominent theme of Gibson's work, but "at the intersection of chaos and technology," he said.

On October 28, 2014, the Peripheral, William Gibson's first book in a new series of books, was published. In a short appearance at the New York Public Library on April 19, 2013, he briefly discussed the tale, as well as an excerpt from the book's first chapter entitled "The Gone Haptics." The tale takes place in two decades, one about thirty years into the future and the other more recent.

Its continuation, Agency, was announced on January 21, 2020 after being postponed from its original scheduled release date of December 2018. Gibson wrote in a New Yorker magazine article that both Trump's election and the scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica had prompted him to rethink and revise the text.

Gibson posted a tweet on July 17, 2020: "I don't think I'm going to call Agent's sequel Jackpot at all," says the author. Not because of [Jackpot by Michael Mechanic], which I look forward to reading more about, but because the agency was originally called Tulpagotchi. I still love this book, but it may have been a different book."

Gibson's comedy/graphic book Archangel was released in 2017 in between The Peripheral and Agency. Both Archangel and The Peripheral are time travelers, but Gibson has confirmed that the two companies are not connected: they are not "same universe." The Splitter and Transcontinual virtuality are two different mechanisms (also different plot structures). Dark Horse Comics' Johnnie Christmas' interpretation of Gibson's Alien 3 script in five parts began last year, resulting in a hardcover collection being released in 2019.

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