“The Peripheral,” William Gibson’s first novel in four years, is set in two related futures, and might seem to mark a return to the author’s sci-fi roots.

By William Gibson. Putnam. 485 pp. $28.95. W henever I'm asked on fancy stages or across shadowed bars to name my favorite author, I always reply: William Gibson.

The tantalizing question about William Gibson’s ideas in his novel Neuromancer involves their relationship with the course that the Web took and continues to take as Neuromancer’s publication ...

The family lived there while his construction-manager father, William Ford Gibson, Jr.—Gibson is William Ford Gibson III—helped to oversee the building of workers’ housing at the Oak Ridge ...

— William Gibson Gibson: You'd pull it up on YouTube, as soon as it was played. It would go up on YouTube among the kazillion other things that went up on YouTube that day.

“I wanted buzzwords,” William Gibson says of his early writing ambitions. “I wanted buzz-neologisms, really.” He scored with “cyberspace,” the term he coined in a short story and ...

Sci-fi novelist William Gibson foresaw the cyberspace revolution. Now he reveals his latest predictions to Rob Sharp. Wednesday 05 September 2007 00:00 BST. Comments.

William Gibson lives in an overwhelmingly green suburb with old-money roots south of Vancouver’s downtown, and it is in this suburb that I am currently wandering, looking for William Gibson ...

William Gibson, one of science fiction’s most visionary and distinctive voices, maintains that he and his fellow writers don’t possess some mystical ability to peer into the future. “We’re ...

William Gibson writes visionary stories — in his early work, he imagined an information superhighway long before the Web existed. But in a dozen novels over the last 35 years, Gibson has stalked ...