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Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, USA. In 1968, he moved to Canada, and in 1972, he settled in Vancouver, B.C., where he began to write science fiction and has spent his adult life. His early works are generally futuristic stories about the influences of cybernetic and cyberspaceCyberspace is a (virtual) reality within the world's computers and computer networks. Cyberspace is a common theme in science fiction. The word "cyberspace" (a portmanteau of cybernetics and space) was coined by William Gibson, the Canadian science fictio (computer simulated reality) technology on the humanHuman beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. Biologically, they are classified as Homo sapiens ( Latin for knowing man , a primate species of mammal with a highly developed brain. In spiritua race living in the imminent future. His '80s fiction, especially, has a noirFilm noir is a genre of film based in large part on the hard-boiled detective novels that grew out of naturalism, a movement in literature based on realism. Film noir is French for "black film", and is pronounced accordingly ("film nwahr"): the plural is, bleak feel. His first novelA novel is a long or extended work of fiction written in prose, usually in the form of a story. It is longer and more complex than a short story or novella (ie. 40,000+ words), and it is not bound by the restrictions of plays and poetry. The word "novel", Neuromancerartificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, multinational corporations dominating the world at the expense of the nation-state, and cyberspace (a computer network called the Matrix) long before these ideas were fashionable in popular cu, won three major science-fiction awards ( Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Memorial AwardThe Philip K. Dick Memorial Award is a science fiction award sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, and named after science fiction writer Philip K. It has been awarded since 1982. Works that have received the award are identified on their).

More recently, Gibson has begun to move away from the fictional dystopias that made him famous, toward a more realist style of writing, eschewing his trademark jump-cuts in favour of continuity and narrative flow. The novel Pattern Recognition even saw him enter the mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. There is, however, still the focus on technological change, and in particular on its darker, less predictable social consequences.

In addition to his paper works, he also wrote an electronic poem called " Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) " in 1992, and flirted with writing a weblog from January to September 2003. Gibson has since taken up blogging again in October 2004. Gibson had also written a highly anticipated treatment of Alien 3, few elements of which ever found their way into the ultimate film.

Two of his short stories have been turned into movies: 1995's " Johnny Mnemonic", starring Keanu Reeves, and 1998's " New Rose Hotel", starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and Asia Argento. Gibson, together with his friend Tom Maddox , wrote the X-Files episodes "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter" and made a cameo appearance in the latter. Gibson also made a cameo appearance in the miniseries Wild Palms, which was heavily influenced by the work of Gibson and other cyberpunk writers.

Despite all these, Gibson never had a special relationship with computers.