威廉•吉布森 (William Ford Gibson，1948-)

当代最重要的英文作家之一，科幻小说宗师，赛博朋克之父。

他的处女作《神经漫游者》开创了“赛博朋克”这个文学流派，1985年史无前例地囊括雨果、星云、菲利普•K•迪克奖。2005年《时代》将其列入“1923年以来100本最佳英文小说”。

吉布森不仅为科幻小说开辟了一个全新的疆域，他天才的文风和犀利的哲学思辨，更赋予科幻小说一种新的质感与厚度。他的每本小说，均是可以被反复重读、反复品味的当代经典。

他也是“网络空间（cyberspace）”这个词的发明者。如今处处可见的“网络空间”和“虚拟现实”就是因为吉布森小说的影响力而进入了我们的语言系统。

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known.And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.