"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
- 1948 - born in South Carolina, USA
- 1967 - moved to Canada to avoid conscription to the war in Vietnam
- 1981 - his science fiction stories began appearing in magazines
- 1984 - Gibson's first novel Neuromancer is published, immediately becoming a classic of cyberpunk literature
- 1993 - 1999 - The Bridge Trilogy is released. It is comprised of three novels: Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties
- 2003 - 2010 - the novels Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History are released, comprising the Blue Ant Trilogy
- 2020 - his most recent novel Agency is published