威廉•吉布森 (William Ford Gibson，1948-)

當代最重要的英文作傢之一，科幻小說宗師，賽博朋剋之父。

他的處女作《神經漫遊者》開創瞭“賽博朋剋”這個文學流派，1985年史無前例地囊括雨果、星雲、菲利普•K•迪剋奬。2005年《時代》將其列入“1923年以來100本最佳英文小說”。

吉布森不僅為科幻小說開闢瞭一個全新的疆域，他天纔的文風和犀利的哲學思辨，更賦予科幻小說一種新的質感與厚度。他的每本小說，均是可以被反復重讀、反復品味的當代經典。

他也是“網絡空間（cyberspace）”這個詞的發明者。如今處處可見的“網絡空間”和“虛擬現實”就是因為吉布森小說的影響力而進入瞭我們的語言係統。

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.