William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer best known for his contributions to the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. He was born on March 17, 1948, in Conway, South Carolina. Gibson's most famous work is the novel "Neuromancer," published in 1984. This influential book helped define the cyberpunk aesthetic and introduced concepts such as "cyberspace," a term Gibson popularized in his writing, which describes a virtual reality data space.
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