Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for William Gibson across 3 places, from 1967 to 1981.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) 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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place William Gibson is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where William Gibson was documented, and when
1967year
Canadaattested“In 1967, he elected to move to Canada in order "to avoid the Vietnam war draft".”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
1972year
Vancouverattested“The couple married and settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1972, with Gibson looking after their first child while they lived off his wife's teaching salary.”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
1980year
Vancouverattested“Impatient with much of what he saw at a science fiction convention in Vancouver in 1980 or 1981, Gibson found a kindred spirit in fellow panelist, punk musician and author John Shirley.”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
1981year
Vancouverattested“Through Shirley, Gibson came into contact with science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner; reading Gibson's work, they realized that it was, as Sterling put it, "breakthrough material" and that they needed to "put down our p…”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
1981year
Denverattested“Through Shirley, Gibson came into contact with science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner; reading Gibson's work, they realized that it was, as Sterling put it, "breakthrough material" and that they needed to "put down our p…”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
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In each of these, a source puts William Gibson and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that William Gibson was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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1967year
Yorkville, Torontomentioned“He appeared, during the Summer of Love of 1967, in a CBC newsreel item about hippie subculture in Yorkville, Toronto, for which he was paid $500—the equivalent of 20 weeks' rent—which financed his later travels.”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
October 1989month
Royce Hallmentioned“In October 1989, Gibson wrote text for such a collaboration with acclaimed sculptor and future Johnny Mnemonic director Robert Longo titled Dream Jumbo: Working the Absolutes, which was displayed in Royce Hall, University of California L…”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
1990year
San Franciscomentioned“In 1990, Gibson contributed to "Visionary San Francisco", an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art shown from June 14 to August 26.”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
1991 to 1993period
Walled City of Kowloonmentioned“A similar fate befell Gibson's collaboration with Japanese filmmaker Sogo Ishii in 1991, a film they planned on shooting in the Walled City of Kowloon until the city was demolished in 1993.”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
December 1992month
Manhattanmentioned“Gibson commented that Ashbaugh's design "eventually included a supposedly self-devouring floppy-disk intended to display the text only once, then eat itself." Contrary to numerous colorful reports, the diskettes were never actually "hack…”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
19 April 2013exact date
New York Public Librarymentioned“He described the story briefly in an appearance he made at the New York Public Library on April 19, 2013, and read an excerpt from the first chapter of the book entitled "The Gone Haptics".”source: Wikipedia: William Gibson
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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How to read this page
Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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