gibson, william

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gibson, william - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  William Gibson
  Gibson, William
  
     <person> Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer
     (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual
     Light (1993).
  
     Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal
     "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence
      from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and
     Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal
     cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace".
  
     Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly
     purchased his first computer in 1992.
  
     (1996-06-11)