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William Gibson (1)

This page covers the author of Neuromancer.

For other authors named William Gibson, see the disambiguation page.

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William Gibson was born on March 17, 1948 in Conway, South Carolina. He dropped out of high school and moved to Canada, where he eventually graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1977. He is the author of Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Peripheral, and Neuromancer, which won the Phillip K. Dick Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Johnny Mnemonic. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Neuromancer… (more)
Neuromancer 21,969 copies, 357 reviews
Pattern Recognition 8,691 copies, 167 reviews
Mona Lisa Overdrive 6,955 copies, 53 reviews
Count Zero 6,878 copies, 58 reviews
Idoru 5,653 copies, 45 reviews
The Difference Engine 5,652 copies, 84 reviews
Virtual Light 5,440 copies, 48 reviews
Burning Chrome 5,326 copies, 42 reviews
Spook Country 4,615 copies, 121 reviews
All Tomorrow's Parties 4,336 copies, 35 reviews
Zero History 2,373 copies, 77 reviews
The Peripheral 2,053 copies, 89 reviews
Agency 954 copies, 36 reviews
Distrust That Particular Flavor 668 copies, 37 reviews
Johnny Mnemonic 447 copies, 2 reviews
William Gibson's Alien 3 81 copies, 4 reviews
Archangel #1 38 copies
New Rose Hotel 12 copies
The Winter Market [novelette] 10 copies, 1 review
Fragments of a Hologram Rose 6 copies, 1 review
Jackpot 1 copy
Dhalgren (Foreword, some editions) 3,488 copies, 73 reviews
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (Contributor) 1,528 copies, 7 reviews
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Contributor) 743 copies, 19 reviews
The Alteration (Introduction, some editions) 635 copies, 17 reviews
The Time Traveller's Almanac (Contributor) 509 copies, 11 reviews
The Science Fiction Century (Contributor) 503 copies, 4 reviews
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (Foreword, some editions) 465 copies, 6 reviews
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (Contributor) 415 copies, 8 reviews
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (Contributor) 371 copies, 5 reviews
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (Contributor) 364 copies, 6 reviews
The Big Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 359 copies, 6 reviews
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (Contributor) 297 copies, 4 reviews
City Come A-Walkin' (Foreword, some editions) 255 copies, 3 reviews
Year's Best SF 3 (Contributor) 248 copies, 4 reviews
Semiotext(e) SF (Contributor) 244 copies
Modern Classics of Science Fiction (Contributor) 195 copies, 2 reviews
Future on Fire (Contributor) 182 copies, 4 reviews
The Art of the Matrix (Introduction, some editions) 170 copies, 3 reviews
The Ultimate Cyberpunk (Contributor) 148 copies
Chaos & Cyber Culture (Contributor) 132 copies
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Contributor) 119 copies, 3 reviews
Hackers (Contributor) 110 copies, 2 reviews
Cyber-killers (Contributor, some editions) 103 copies, 2 reviews
Christmas Stars (Contributor) 94 copies, 2 reviews
Visions of Wonder (Contributor) 89 copies, 2 reviews
Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (Contributor) 87 copies, 2 reviews
The Nebula Awards Eighteen (Contributor) 83 copies
The Reel Stuff (Contributor) 82 copies
Nebula Award Stories 17 (Contributor) 80 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 (Contributor) 80 copies, 1 review
Shadows 4 (Contributor) 72 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 8 (Contributor) 68 copies, 1 review
Time Travelers (Fiction in the Fourth Dimension) (Contributor) 61 copies, 3 reviews
Tesseracts 3 (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review
Tesseracts 1 (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review
New Worlds (New Anthology Series , Vol 1) (Author) 46 copies, 1 review
Universe 11 (Contributor) 27 copies
The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick 1974 (Introduction, some editions) 25 copies
Tesseracts 2 (Contributor) 17 copies
We, Robots (Contributor) 14 copies
Transit Lounge (Introduction) 10 copies
Fortean Times 73 (Contributor) 2 copies
Neuromancer--screenplay (Original book) 1 copy

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