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William Gibson Biography (1948-)

Full name, William Ford Gibson; born March 17, 1948, in Conway, SC; immigrated to Canada, 1968; son of William Ford (a contractor) and Otey (a homemaker;maiden name, Williams) Gibson; married Deborah Thompson (a language instructor), June, 1972; children: Graeme Ford, Claire Thompson. Addresses: Agent: (film and television) Martin S. Shapiro, Shapiro-Lichtman Talent, 8827 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048; (literature) Martha Millard Literary Agency, 204 Park Ave., Madison, NJ 07940.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer

Birth Details

March 17, 1948

Conway, South Carolina, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• Himself, Cyberpunk, First Run Features, 1993
• No Maps for These Territories (documentary), Mark Neale Productions, 2000
• Himself, Cyberman (documentary), Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 2001
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• Decade, MTV, 1989
• Masters of Fantasy: Harlan Ellison, Sci-Fi Channel, 1998
• The X-Files Movie Special, Fox, 1998
• Miniseries
• Himself, Wild Palms, ABC, 1993
• Episodic
• "First Person Shooter," The X-Files, Fox, 2000
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Johnny Mnemonic (based on his short story), TriStar, 1995
• Television Episodes
• (With Tom Maddox) "Kill Switch," The X-Files, Fox, 1998
• (With Maddox) "First Person Shooter," The X-Files, Fox, 2000
• Contributor to the series Harsh Realm, Fox.
• Stage Scripts
• Dream Jumbo (text to accompany performance art by Robert Lungo), Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
• Other
• Neuromancer (novel; first in the "Cyberspace" trilogy), Ace Books,1984
• Count Zero (novel; second in the "Cyberspace" trilogy), Arbor House, 1986
• (With John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, and Michael Swanwick) Burning Chrome (short stories; includes "Burning Chrome," "Johnny Mnemonic," "New Rose Hotel," and one story with each coauthor), Arbor House, 1986
• Mona Lisa Overdrive (novel; third in the "Cyberspace" trilogy), Bantam, 1988
• (With Sterling) The Difference Engine (novel), Gollancz, 1990, Bantam, 1991
• Virtual Light (first novel of a trilogy), Bantam, 1993
• Idoru (second novel of trilogy), G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996
• All Tomorrow's Parties (third novel of trilogy), G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999
• Work represented in anthologies, including Shadows 4, Doubleday (New York City), 1981; Nebula Award Stories 17, Holt (New York City), 1983; and Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, edited by Sterling, Arbor House, 1986. Contributor of stories, articles, and reviews to periodicals,including Omni, Rolling Stone, and Science Fiction Review.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

• Gibson's short story "Johnny Mnemonic" was adapted for the video game Johnny Mnemonic: The Interactive Action Movie, 1995. The film New RoseHotel, released by Avalanche Home Entertainment in 1999, was also basedon a short story by Gibson.

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Cavallaro, Dani, Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson, Athlone Press, 2000
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 39, Gale, 1986
• Contemporary Novelists, 7th edition, St. James Press, 2001
• Contemporary Popular Writers, St. James Press, 1997
• McCaffery, Larry, editor, Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews withContemporary American Science Fiction Writers, University of Illinois Press, 1990
• Olsen, Lance, William Gibson, Borgo, 1992
• Sterling, Bruce, editor, Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Arbor House, 1986
• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, St. James Press, 2000
• St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, 4th edition, St. JamesPress, 1996
• St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers, 2nd edition, St. James Press, 1999

Periodicals

• Analog, November, 1984; December, 1986; January, 1987; April, 1989; October, 1989
• Entertainment Weekly, January 31, 1992, p. 54; August 13, 1993, p.66; August 26, 1994, p. 106; October 8, 1999, p. 10; October 29, 1999, p. 104
• Film Comment, January-February, 1990, p. 60
• Impulse, winter, 1989
• Interview, January, 1989, p. 84
• Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, August, 1986
• Listener, October 11, 1990
• Locus, August, 1988
• Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August, 1985; August, 1986
• Mississippi Review, Volume 16, numbers 2 and 3, 1988
• New Statesman, June 20, 1986; September 26, 1986
• Rolling Stone, December 4, 1986; June 15, 1989
• Spin, December, 1988
• Starlog, August, 1989, p. 41; November, 1997