William Gibson - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	17-March-1948
Place of Birth	Conway (Horry County, South Carolina)
Nationality	United States of America, Canada
Also know as	William Ford Gibson
Profession	Writer, Novelist, Author, Actor
Quotes	The future is here. Itâ€™s just not widely distributed yet.
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer. In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the World Wide Web. Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona, Gibson evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968, where he became immersed in the counterculture. After settling in Vancouver he eventually became a full-time writer. He retains dual citizenship. Gibson's early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the effect of cybernetics and computer networks on humansâ€”a "combination of lowlife and high tech". The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre.

Awards by William Gibson

Check all the awards nominated and won by William Gibson.

2008

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Spook Country

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Arthur C. Clarke Award	Pattern Recognition
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Pattern Recognition

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	All Tomorrow's Parties

1997

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Idoru

1994

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel	Virtual Light
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Virtual Light

1992

Tähtivaeltaja Award

Honored for : Neuromancer

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story	Skinner's Room
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	The Difference Engine

1991

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel	The Difference Engine
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	The Difference Engine

1989

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel	Mona Lisa Overdrive
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Mona Lisa Overdrive

1988

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel	Mona Lisa Overdrive

1987

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel	Count Zero
Hugo Award for Best Novelette	The Winter Market
Locus Award for Best Collection	Burning Chrome
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Count Zero

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel	Count Zero
Hugo Award for Best Novelette	Dogfight
Nebula Award for Best Novelette	The Winter Market

1985

Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Novel

Honored for : Neuromancer

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Honored for : Neuromancer

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel	Neuromancer
Nebula Award for Best Novelette	Dogfight
Locus Award for Best Short Story	New Rose Hotel
Locus Award for Best First Novel	Neuromancer
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel	Neuromancer

1984

Nebula Award for Best Novel

Honored for : Neuromancer

Philip K. Dick Award

Honored for : Neuromancer

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Philip K. Dick Award	Neuromancer
Nebula Award for Best Novel	Neuromancer

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novelette	Burning Chrome
Locus Award for Best Short Story	Hinterlands
Locus Award for Best Short Story	The Gernsback Continuum

1981

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story	Johnny Mnemonic

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