Childhood, itinerance, and adolescence
William Ford Gibson was born in the coastal city of Conway, South Carolina, and he spent most of his childhood in Wytheville, Virginia, a small town in the Appalachianswhere

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Early short fiction
Gibson's early writings are generally near-future stories about the influences of cybernetics and cyberspace (computer-simulated reality) technology on the human species. His themes of hi-tech shanty towns,

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Literary collaborations
Three of the stories that later appeared in Burning Chrome were written in collaboration with other authors: "The Belonging Kind"

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• No Maps for These Territories (2000)
• Making of 'Johnny Mnemonic' (1995)
• Cyberpunk (1990)

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• Olsen, Lance (1992). William Gibson. San Bernardino: Borgo Press. ISBN 978-1-55742-198-2. OCLC 27254726.
• Cavallaro, Dani (2000). Cyberpunk and Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson. London: Athlone Press. ISBN 978-0-485-00607-0

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• Official website
• Bibliography from the Centre for Language and Literature, Athabasca University
• Works by or about William Gibson in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Gibson's prose has been analyzed by a number of scholars, including a dedicated 2011 book, William Gibson: A Literary Companion. Hailed by Steven Pooleof The Guardian in 1999 as

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