William Gibson

“This comprehensive study will go down as the definitive book on William Gibson’s career. Gary Westfahl’s indefatigable research digs up virtually everything pertinent about Gibson.” –James Gunn, founding director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction “Comparatively few writers of genre fiction, who stay true to their roots, manage to become not only respected in the literary mainstream, but give their name, pass on the internal affect of their work, to the outside culture. William Gibson is one of perhaps only two writers in their fifties and sixties from the science fiction and fantasy work to have done this […] Without writing a biography, Westfahl establishes enough of the crucial facts about Gibson’s life and career to be able to press home the argument that it is the sense of estrangement which is crucial to the work…Westfahl understands that these characters, and the culture they embody, exist at the threshold between states, which explains the significance of the Bay Bridge in his work, and why Gibson’s personal explorations of London and of Japan become useful examples of a general cultural experience” - Roz Kaveney, Times Literary Supplement

Gary Westfahl is an adjunct professor teaching in the Writing Program at the University of La Verne. His many publications on science fiction include the three-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy and the Hugo Award-nominated Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits.

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