William Gibson (novelist)

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an author, mostly of science fiction novels, who lives in Canada. He has been called the father of the cyberpunk movement, a subgenre of science fiction. His first and most influential novel, Neuromancer, has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since its publication in 1984.

Quotes

I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here. -- excerpt from short autobiography on Gibson's website, williamgibsonbooks.com

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Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes. -- from a talk given at the Directors Guild of America's Digital Day, Los Angeles, May 17, 2003.

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"...I felt that I was trying to describe an unthinkable present and I actually feel that science fiction's best use today is the exploration of contemporary reality rather than any attempt to predict where we are going... The best thing you can do with science today is use it to explore the present. Earth is the alien planet now." --from an interview on CNNfn, August 26, 1997.

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