William Gibson is one of the brightest stars of modern American prose, the founder of the cyberpunk style, a style that not only revolutionized genre literature in the 1980s, but also responded with serious shocks throughout the range of the literary spectrum. He was born on March 17, 1948, in Conway, South Carolina. By education Gibson is a specialist in the field of English-language literature. The writing career of William Gibson began in 1977 and it became clear from the first tests of the pen that Gibson was not going to write the mainstream at all, but rather inclined to experiment with new topics then ...