[W/K] :: William Gibson

  William Gibson
       
           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 artificial
          intelligence 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)