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。

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known.And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.