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ⓘ About William Gibson
William Gibson is a science fiction best known for his pioneering work in the genre of cyberpunk. He made his debut as a novelist in 1984 with the release of Neuromancer which is considered to be one of his best work. The book is the only novel in history to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. Gibson was born in South Carolina and he spent most of his childhood in Wytheville, Virginia. In high school, he became interested in the Beat generation and writers like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs who would have a big effect on him. He was not a great student and left high school before graduating. Then when the Vietnam war draft began, he had no interest in going.
All Book Series by William Gibson
The Difference Engine
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 1990 Co-authored · Bruce Sterling
Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay by William Gibson
Single-title series · published 2021 Co-authored · Pat Cadigan
Dogfight (in Omni)
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 1985 Co-authored · Michael Swanwick
Nymph: The Singularity
Series opener · book 1 of 45 · published 2011 Anthology · J.E. Lansing
The Despicable Fantasies of Quentin Sergenov
Book 6 of 45 · published 2021 Anthology · Preston Fassel
These Evil Things We Do & Four Novellas
Book 9 of 45 · published 2022 Anthology · Mick Garris
Sausages: The Making of Dog Soldiers
Book 11 of 45 · published 2022 Anthology · Janine Pipe
Dust Bowl Children
Book 15 of 45 · published 2022 Anthology · Wile E. Young,Emily Young
All Our Hearts Are Ghosts
Book 18 of 45 · published 2022 Anthology · Peter Atkins
The Dead Friends Society
Book 21 of 45 · published 2022 Multi-author collection
Hot Splices: The Author's Cut
Book 25 of 45 · published 2023 Anthology · MikeWatt
Where Wolf
Book 28 of 45 · published 2023 Anthology · Jack Morelli,Rob Saucedo,Debora Lancianese
The Encyclopocalypse of Legends and Lore: Volume One
Book 30 of 45 · published 2023 Anthology · Stephanie Ellis,R.J. Joseph,Brennan LaFaro
They Will Claim That I Was Dead...
Book 32 of 45 · published 2023 Anthology · Florian Frerichs
The Schlimazel of Sebreim
Book 33 of 45 · published 2023 Anthology · Richard Elfman
Phantom Limbs: Dissecting Horror's Lost Sequels and Remakes
Book 34 of 45 · published 2024 Anthology · Jasons Jenkins
The Part Mart
Book 35 of 45 · published 2024 Anthology · BretNelson,Pete Mitchell
The Mostly True Story of Rudabaugh and Webb
Book 39 of 45 · published 2024 Anthology · Mike Watt
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence
Book 41 of 45 · published 2024 Anthology · Ariel Powers-Schaub,Zoe Rose Smith
A Comedy of Tragedies: An American Memoir for the Completely Dysfunctional
Book 42 of 45 · published 2024 Anthology · Steve Barton
Bride of the Living Chad
Book 44 of 45 · published 2025 Anthology · Damien Casey
Splatter Flicks: How to Make Low-Budget Horror Films
Latest in the series · book 45 of 45 · published 2025 Anthology · Sara Caldwell
Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life
Series opener · book 1 of 44 · published 2009 Anthology · Martin L. Davies
Narrative Projections of a Black British History
Book 2 of 44 · published 2011 Anthology · Eva Ulrike Pirker
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice
Book 3 of 44 · published 2011 Anthology · Berber Bevernage
Integrity and Historical Research
Book 4 of 44 · published 2011 Anthology · Tony Gibbons,Emily Sutherland
Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience
Book 5 of 44 · published 2011 Anthology · Peter Icke
The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity
Book 6 of 44 · published 2013 Anthology · Paolo Pombeni
The Fiction of History
Book 7 of 44 · published 2014 Anthology · Alexander Lyon Macfie
The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism
Book 8 of 44 · published 2014 Anthology · Rolf Torstendahl
The Material of World History
Book 9 of 44 · published 2014 Anthology · David Churchill,Tina Mai Chen
The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future
Book 10 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Egl? Rindzevi?i?t?,Jenny Andersson
Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne
Book 11 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Michael Kimaid
'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past
Book 12 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Beverley C Southgate
The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies
Book 13 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Melanie Ilič
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention
Book 14 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Jaume Aurell
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
Book 15 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Jay Winter,Alexandre Dessingue
History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History
Book 16 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Anton Froeyman
How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science
Book 17 of 44 · published 2015 Anthology · Martin L. Davies
The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand
Book 18 of 44 · published 2016 Anthology · Vladimir Petrović
Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography
Book 19 of 44 · published 2017 Anthology · Tor Egil Førland
History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School
Book 20 of 44 · published 2017 Anthology · Robert Leroux
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past
Book 21 of 44 · published 2017 Anthology · Kalle Pihlainen
Universal History and the Making of the Global
Book 22 of 44 · published 2018 Anthology · Hall Bjørnstad,Helge Jordheim,Anne Regent-Susini
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money
Book 23 of 44 · published 2018 Anthology · Bin Yang
A Personalist Philosophy of History
Book 24 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Bennett Gilbert
Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons
Book 25 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Andreas Leutzsch
Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History
Book 26 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Lawrence Abrams,Kaleb Knoblauch
Teleology and Modernity
Book 27 of 44 · published 2019 Co-authored · Dan O'Brien,Marius Turda
Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian
Book 28 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Katherine J. Lewis,Alexander von Lünen,Benjamin Litherland,Pat Cullum
The Aesthetics of History
Book 29 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Alun Munslow
Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History
Book 30 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Silvia Cavicchioli,Luigi Provero
The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values
Book 31 of 44 · published 2019 Anthology · Martin L Davies
In Praise of Historical Anthropology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism
Book 32 of 44 · published 2020 Anthology · Alexandre Coello de la Rosa,Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste
Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach
Book 33 of 44 · published 2020 Anthology · Ida Nijenhuis,Marijke Van Faassen,Ronald Sluijter,Joris Gijsenbergh,Wim de Jong
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History
Book 34 of 44 · published 2020 Anthology · Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia
Africa, Empire and World Disorder
Book 35 of 44 · published 2020 Anthology · A G Hopkins
History in a Post-Truth World
Book 36 of 44 · published 2020 Anthology · Marius Gudonis,Benjamin T. Jones
The Primacy of Method in Historical Research
Book 37 of 44 · published 2020 Anthology · Jonas Ahlskog
Archives and Human Rights
Book 38 of 44 · published 2021 Anthology · Jens Boel,Perrine Canavaggio,Antonio González Quintana
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments
Book 39 of 44 · published 2021 Anthology · Jörn Rüsen
National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison
Book 40 of 44 · published 2021 Anthology · Niels F May,Thomas Maissen
Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand
Book 41 of 44 · published 2021 Anthology · Sophie Scott-Brown,Malcolm Allbrook
Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation
Book 42 of 44 · published 2021 Anthology · Melissa-Ellen Dowling
How to Write About the Holocaust
Book 43 of 44 · published 2022 Anthology · Theodor Pelekanidis
The Politics of Time in China and Japan
Latest in the series · book 44 of 44 · published 2022 Anthology · Viren Murthy
Universe 11
Book 11 of 17 · published 1981 Co-authored · Kim Stanley Robinson,Michael Swanwick,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr
Universe 13
Book 13 of 17 · published 1983 Anthology · Kim Stanley Robinson,Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel
Universe 17
Latest in the series · book 17 of 17 · published 1987 Anthology · Terry Carr
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1
Series opener · book 1 of 16 · published 1972
Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16
Latest in the series · book 16 of 16 · published 1987
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
Book 6 of 28 · published 1985
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels
Book 22 of 28 · published 2005
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is William Gibson?
William Gibson is a science fiction best known for his pioneering work in the genre of cyberpunk. He made his debut as a novelist in 1984 with the release of Neuromancer which is considered to be one of his best work. The book is the only novel in history to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K.
Which William Gibson series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Universe series, the earliest of William Gibson's multi-book series: it opens with Universe 1 (1971) and runs to 17 books across 1971–1987, ending with Universe 17 (1987). William Gibson's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has William Gibson written?
William Gibson has 170 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1971 and 2025. 134 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Encyclopocalypse Originals series with 45 books — and 36 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should William Gibson's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. William Gibson's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Universe (1971–1987, 17 books), Sprawl (1984–1988, 3 books) and Bridge (1993–1999, 3 books), plus 5 more.
How are William Gibson's books organised into series?
This guide splits William Gibson's 170 books into 9 named series and 36 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Encyclopocalypse Originals (45 books, 2011–2025); Routledge Approaches to History (44 books, 2009–2022); Universe (17 books, 1971–1987); Blue Ant (3 books, 2003–2010); Bridge (3 books, 1993–1999), plus 4 further series.