Awards & Winners

William Gibson

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. It’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 humans—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