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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 159. Chapters: Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, Poul Anderson, William Gibson, Larry Niven, Frank Herbert, Brian Aldiss, James Tiptree, Jr., Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Roger Zelazny, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, Greg Bear, Anne McCaffrey, Lois McMaster Bujold, Joanna Russ, George R. R. Martin, Charles Sheffield, Gregory Benford, George Alec Effinger, David Brin, Jack McDevitt, Katherine MacLean, John Varley, Michael Chabon, Geoffrey A. Landis, Gene Wolfe, Howard Waldrop, Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Bishop, Jack Dann, Clifford D. Simak, Samuel R. Delany, Guillermo del Toro, Orson Scott Card, Robert J. Sawyer, Octavia E. Butler, Jack Williamson, Connie Willis, Mike Resnick, David Gerrold, Catherine Asaro, Charles L. Grant, Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois, James Morrow, Tom Reamy, Joe Haldeman, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Moon, Spider Robinson, Jane Yolen, Eugie Foster, Vonda N. McIntyre, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, James Patrick Kelly, Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, Gordon R. Dickson, Elizabeth Hand, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ted Chiang, Kage Baker, Kij Johnson, Gordon Eklund, Walter Jon Williams, Karen Joy Fowler, Alexei Panshin, Nancy Kress, Jerry Oltion, Kelly Link, Suzy McKee Charnas, Barry B. Longyear, Jeffrey Ford, Kate Wilhelm, Esther Friesner, Daniel Keyes, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Edward Bryant, Nicola Griffith, Alan Brennert, Pat Murphy, Anne Harris, Bruce Holland Rogers, Carol Emshwiller, Jack Cady, Leslie What, Mary Turzillo, Richard Wilson, Pamela Sargent, Terry Bisson, Eileen Gunn, Richard McKenna, Martha Soukup, Jeanne Robinson, Richard Chwedyk, The Barbie Murders, Michael Conner, Ellen Klages, Sheila Finch, Severna Park, Linda Nagata. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) 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" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). 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 and after settling in Vancouver 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. Although much of Gibson's reputation has remained associated with Neuromancer, his work has continued to evolve. After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, ...