William Gibson

Naissance 17 March 1948

Originaire de Conway, South Carolina, United States · Nationalité : Canada, United States · Écrit de la fiction

William Ford Gibson est un écrivain américano-canadien, souvent surnommé le « prophète noir » du sous-genre cyberpunk de la science-fiction. Gibson a forgé le terme « cyberespace » dans sa nouvelle « Burning Chrome », puis l'a popularisé dans son premier roman, Neuromancien (1984).

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“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
He is reported to have first said this in an interview on Fresh Air, NPR 31 AugEn anglais
“Hell of a world we live in…” / “That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
Burning Chrome short story collection, 1986En anglais
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another. / We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
Distrust That Particular FlavorEn anglais
“My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop. And it probably will.”
Distrust That Particular FlavorEn anglais