' The Winter Market', a short story first published in November 1985, was well-received, garnering Hugo, Nebula, Aurora, and BSFA nominations and finished highly in the Locus, Interzone and Science Fiction Chronicle polls. Much of Gibson's reputation remained associated with Neuromancer, and though its sequels in the Sprawl trilogy – Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) – also attracted Hugo and Nebula nominations for best novel, major award wins eluded the writer thereafter. It also won the Ditmar and Seiun awards, received nominations for the year's 'outstanding work' Prix Aurora Award and the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) award for best novel, topped the annual Science Fiction Chronicle poll and finishing third in the standings for the 1985 John W. Dick Award for paperback original, an unprecedented achievement described by the Mail & Guardian as 'the sci-fi writer's version of winning the Goncourt, Booker and Pulitzer prizes in the same year'.

It became the first novel to win the 'triple crown' of science fiction awards – the Nebula and the Hugo Awards for best novel along with the Philip K. The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which proved to be the author's breakout work, achieving critical and commercial success and virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre. Several of these garnered critical attention and popular acclaim, receiving Hugo and Nebula Awards nominations in the categories of best short story and best novelette and being featured prominently in the annual Locus Awards reader's poll. His early works are bleak, noir near-future stories about the relationship between humans and technology – a 'combination of lowlife and high tech'. Since first being published in the late 1970s, Gibson has written more than twenty short stories and nine critically acclaimed novels. William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the 'noir prophet' of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Portrait of Gibson in Paris on the occasion of his 60th birthday, May 17, 2008

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