William Gibson

William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s his early works were bleak noir nearfuture stories that explored the effects of technology cybernetics and computer networks on humansa combination of lowlife and high techand helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s