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。

The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers. Mona's pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she's turned overnight into someone else. The pimp winds up dead. Mona weeps for him. She's a sweet, dumb girl! so far. Angie the famous Hollywood stim star has started remembering things. Despite the efforts of studio bosses to keep her in ignorance, Angie will discover who she really is! and why she doesn't need to jack into the Matrix in order to enter cyberspace. In the depths of the rustbelt, the ring of steel garbage and toxic waste surrounding the Sprawl, Gentry obsessively seeks the darkest secrets of the Matrix. Seeking rapture. When an impossibly tall and powerful skyscraper of data appears suddenly in the landscape of the Matrix, Gentry is ready for it, Angie is part of it, and Mona is set for overdrive. Rapture is on the agenda for all three, but others greedy for money and power will fight them to the death.