His new life in Virginia was suffocating: “suddenly I was living in a vision of the past. His father died when he was 8, and with a move to Virginia, Gibson noted that "this experience of feeling abruptly exiled, to what seemed like the past, that began my relationship with science fiction." The death and move were traumatic for Gibson. William Gibson was born on the March 17th, 1948, in South Carolina. It's a claustrophobic, cynical and raw take on the future, and it became an instant hit, one that changed science fiction for years to come. The book depicted a dystopian future and codified a simmering movement within the genre: Cyberpunk. It's rare that a science fiction novel comes out of nowhere and upends the large part of a literary movement, but that's just what William Gibson did 30 years ago with his first novel, Neuromancer.
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