William Gibson is an American-Canadian science-fiction writer who rose to prominence after the publication of his debut novel, Neuromancer. Gibson began writing science fiction and noir-influenced short stories that explored the cyberpunk style throughout the late 1970s and through the 1980s, eventually going on to publish Neuromancer, a novel that expanded his previous short story "Burning Chrome." Gibson went on to publish two more novels related to Neuromancer, which are now referred to as the "Sprawl trilogy," and has since gone on to write three more trilogies of science fiction novels, as well as one co-authored novel released in 1990.
Gibson has been credited with popularizing the...
