Science fiction writer, godfather of the Cyberpunk movement and 'architect of cool'

William Gibson

Science fiction writer and author of Zero History

William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide. In an earlier short story, Gibson had coined the phrase 'cyberspace', and he developed the concept in the novel, creating an iconography for the Information Age long before widespread use of the Internet. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed his first trilogy.

He has since written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels are Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History.

He was born in South Carolina but has lived in Vancouver, Canada for many years.