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.
William Gibson is an American-Canadian novelist who pioneered the genre of science/speculative fiction. Explore this biography to learn more about his profile, childhood, life and timeline. Credit William Gibson 60th birthday portrait by Gonzo Bonzo - originally posted to Flickr as William Gibson. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. William Gibson is a speculative fiction writer who is often referred to as the noir prophet of the cyberpunk subgenre. In his short story Burning Chrome he introduced the word âCyber-punkâ which was later popularized as a concept in his first novel, âNeuromancerâ.