In 1984, Gibson became the first author to win the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award in a single year for his debut novel Neuromancer. He is credited with having coined the term "cyberspace," and for having envisioned both the Internet (complete with viruses and hackers) and virtual reality before either existed. In subsequent novelsCount Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru and the best-sellers Virtual Light and Pattern Recognitionhe foresaw ongoing advances in nanotechnology, information control, identity theft, and the culture of on-line chat rooms. Spook Country, like Pattern Recognition before it, takes place in our own day and time, in a world with which we are all too familiar.
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