page_title: List of works by William Gibson
section_title: Screenplays
hierarchical_section_title: List of works by William Gibson / Screenplays
caption_attribution_description: Barcode tattoo with "TSR" number based on Tanos ownership site.
context_page_description: The works of William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in "Burning Chrome" and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel Neuromancer. Gibson's early short fiction is recognized as cyberpunk's finest work, effectively renovating the science fiction genre which had been hitherto considered widely insignificant.
  At the turn of the 1990s, after the completion of his Sprawl trilogy of novels, Gibson contributed the text to a number of performance art pieces and exhibitions, as well as writing lyrics for musicians Yellow Magic Orchestra and Debbie Harry. He wrote the critically acclaimed artist's book Agrippa in 1992 before co-authoring The Difference Engine, an alternate history novel that would become a central work of the steampunk genre. He then spent an unfruitful period as a Hollywood screenwriter, with few of his projects seeing the light of day and those that did being critically unsuccessful.
context_section_description: Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
  The X-Files:
  "Kill Switch" (1998; with Tom Maddox)
  "First Person Shooter" (2000; with Tom Maddox)
caption: A neck barcode tattoo, the sole element of Gibson's Alien 3 script which was included in the final cut of the film.[16]
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