William Gibson

Born: 1948-03-17

William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.


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No Maps for These Territories

as Himself
Released: 2000-10-04

On an overcast morning in 1999, William Gibson, father of cyberpunk and author of the...

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Cyberpunk

as Himself
Released: 1990-01-28

Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic...

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My Love, My Umbrella

as Philosopher
Released: 2001-09-01

A young woman loses her umbrella in a café altering her perception of the world forever.

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Decade

as Self
Released: 1989-12-09

Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr,...

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Visions of Heaven and Hell

as Self
Released: 1994-01-31

Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this...

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Upload

as Author William Gibson
First aired: 2020-04-30

In 2033, people who are near death can be “uploaded” into virtual reality hotels run by 6 tech...

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Prisoners of Gravity

as Self
First aired: 1989-08-21

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that...

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The Real History of Science Fiction

as Himself
First aired: 2014-04-19

The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television...

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