William Gibson

person Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer

(1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual

Light (1993).

Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal

"cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificialintelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and

Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal

cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace".

Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly

purchased his first computer in 1992.

(1996-06-11)