The Neuromancer for example, is readily available now at many auction sites both in its original first printing hardback, as well as in unedited galley proof editions and mass market paperback. As a rule of thumb, apart from breakaway authors such as JK Rowling, books start to accrete value once they are past the forty-fifty year mark, so his early novels are starting to see some genuine rise in market value, which has only been maximized by his uniquely somewhat prophetic status. His earliest work, The Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive were published in the mid-eighties, while his current work is still being published to this day, as he is an active writer. In collecting terms, his catalog occupies that middle ground between contemporary taste and lasting legacy. It has even been claimed that William Gibson's works, similar to George Orwell or Bradbury, have predicted changes and attitudes in society and technology, which may go some way to explain just how popular they are. William Gibson is one of the fathers of what has been called cyberpunk literature, a sub-genre of the science fiction literary form that has been overwhelmingly influential in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
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