GIBSON BIO | EXCLUSIVE CLIVE BARKER INTERVIEW WITH GIBSON | LINKS

William Ford Gibson is the author of science fiction novels and short stories who coined the term cyberspace in 1981. Born in Conway, South Carolina, he dropped-out of high school, moved to Canada and composed his first short story for a class at the University of British Columbia. His Cyberspace Trilogy -- Neuromancer (1984), together with its sequels Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) -- describes a vision of future society in which tough characters face a tough world. In his stories, each with a frantic pace, technology is a source of power over others, and the multinational corporations that develop and control technology are more important than governments. Many of his descriptions and metaphors have entered the broader culture as potent images characterizing human relations in cyberspace and the electronic age. Among his awards are the Hugo Award for the best novel from the World Science Fiction Society, The Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback from the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, The Nebula Award for best novel from Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Ditmar Award from the Australian National Science Fiction Convention.

LINKS RELATED TO GIBSON AND "CYBERPUNK CULTURE"

Matteo Burioni's "Gibson Toolkit"

"William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy"

A great Gibson site by Sami Nieminen (aka "The Finn")

Our faithful interviewer - Clive Barker's official homepage, "Lost Souls"

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