In light of this, the call by Indonesiaâs ISIL supporters to rally followers in support of an Islamic State, with tales of ISIL violence spread around as the âsuccess storiesâ of some kind of holy war, becomes a very real discomfort.
William Gibson. For other people named William Gibson, see William Gibson (disambiguation). William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
Don Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina, into a poor working-class family, and he dropped out of school in the second grade. His first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948.