William Gibson was born on March 17, 1948 in South Carolina (USA) as the only son of a high executive of a construction company. Along with the body of the father the family had to move frequently, while the father also often go on business trips was. When Gibson was six years old, his father drowned during such a mission in a restaurant at his food, and the now widowed mother moved with him to the village in southwestern Virginia from which they originated, and Gibson's father.
When Gibson was 15 years old, his mother sent him a boy in boarding school in Arizona. In Gibson's 18th His age, died Mother, and some time later he left school without a degree.
At 19, he emigrated to Canada to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War and now lives near Vancouver. He became famous for his 1984 published novel Neuromancer, which this year won all major SF awards: the Philip K. Dick Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award and the Hugo Award. In this book he coined include the term cyberspace, which is still used extensively for electronic networks like the WWW, and the subgenre of cyberpunk and the concept of the matrix, which is formed by a global information network that allows the Cyber Space.
with his penultimate novel, "Pattern recognition "(in German:" Pattern Recognition ") laid before Gibson's first time-critical contemporary novel. "Source" ("Spook Country") is a worthy sequel.
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