William Gibson is an American-born Canadian writer whose work helped define cyberpunk science fiction. Born in Conway, South Carolina, in 1948, he moved to Canada in 1968 and later settled in Vancouver. He began publishing science fiction in the late 1970s, including stories such as “Johnny Mnemonic” and “Burning Chrome”, which introduced themes and settings that became central to his later work.

Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, was published in 1984 and won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards. The novel helped establish cyberpunk as a major strand of science fiction and popularised Gibson’s use of the term “cyberspace”. He went on to write the Sprawl trilogy, the Bridge trilogy and the Blue Ant trilogy, as well as novels including The Peripheral and Agency. His fiction frequently examines technology, corporate power, media and the ways people adapt to rapid social change.