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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 219. Chapters: William Gibson, Michaelle Jean, Adrienne Clarkson, Steve Nash, Rudolf Vrba, Elizabeth May, Lennox Lewis, Jane Jacobs, Ursula Franklin, Milos Raonic, Leslie Cheung, Ujjal Dosanjh, K'naan, Uwe Boll, Abousfian Abdelrazik, Keanu Reeves, Arturo Gatti, Asmir Begovi, Li Ka-shing, Paul Diamond, Philip Bester, Callum Keith Rennie, Kim Cattrall, Brian Moore (novelist), Ben Johnson (sprinter), Lara Fabian, Long John Baldry, Huseyincan Celil, Helen Hill, Simeon Jackson, Thomas Steen, John Yap, Michael Lee-Chin, Ali Gerba, Peter astny, Kaitlyn Weaver, Denise Ho, Elise Estrada, George A. Romero, Petr Nedv d, Iain Hume, Charles Gbeke, P. K. Page, Eduardo Sebrango, Don Matthews, Olivia Chow, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Richie Hawtin, Michael Moriarty, Barry Morse, Tam Nsaliwa, Ivan Kristoff, Natalie Glebova, Bob Nystrom, Vlasta Vrana, Nina Dobrev, Alex Pagulayan, Alex Baumann, Barbara Frum, Corneille (singer), Richard Li, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Angela Chang, Igor Korolev, Svend Robinson, Chris Pozniak, Leonard Doroftei, Rey Pagtakhan, Troy Amos-Ross, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Ben Cahoon, Randy Edwini-Bonsu, Andrei Markov (ice hockey), El-Farouk Khaki, Donovan Bailey, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Allan Zeman. Excerpt: William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and...