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William Gibson

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Canadian ice hockey player (1927–2006)

Person · Open Library

Born
13 November 1914
Died
25 November 2008
Works
40

Top works

  • Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
  • Miracle en Alabama
  • Two Plays and a Preface.
  • Golden Boy
  • The Cobweb

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1928-04-03
Active to
2003-11-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4,044
Total plays
91,590

Tags

science fictionAudiobookcyberpunkfictionspeech

William Ford Gibson, born March 17, 1948 (1948-03-17) (age 59), in Conway, South Carolina is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.[16] Gibson coined the term cyberspace in 1982, and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In depicting a visualised worldwide communications network before the ubiquity of the Internet, Gibson is credited with anticipating important aspects <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Position
Defender
Nationality
Scotland

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
William
Family name
Gibson
Gender
male
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Merritt
Place of death
Lethbridge
Languages spoken
English language
Participant in
1952 Winter Olympics
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date of birth
1927-04-22
date of death
2006-08-29
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