author
W. Gibson
Best known for helping define cyberpunk, this influential novelist imagined networked futures, artificial intelligence, and life shaped by technology long before they felt everyday. His work blends noir atmosphere, sharp style, and a cool-eyed sense of how people adapt to a changing world.
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The book of topiary
by Charles H. Curtis, W. Gibson
About the author
Born in Conway, South Carolina, in 1948, he later settled in Canada and became one of the key voices in modern science fiction. His 1984 debut novel Neuromancer brought him wide attention and helped establish the cyberpunk movement, while also popularizing the term "cyberspace."
Over the years, he built a body of work that includes the Sprawl books, the Bridge trilogy, and later novels such as Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, and The Peripheral. His fiction is known for mixing high technology with street-level detail, showing how global systems, media, and machines reshape ordinary life.
Even readers who have never picked up one of his novels have likely felt his influence. Ideas and images from his work have echoed through science fiction, film, and conversations about the internet for decades, making him one of the most recognizable speculative writers of his generation.