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person Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer
(1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual
Light (1993).
Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal
"cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificialintelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and
Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal
cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace".
Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly
purchased his first computer in 1992.
(1996-06-11)