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William Gibson, a Rare card
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 390,000
Power 187 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech", and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.
- Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome", and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer.
- These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Gibson article was read about 390,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get William Gibson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Gibson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gonzo Bonzo, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.




