Author William Gibson has been called the father of cyberpunk and coined the term "cyberspace" back when Internet was little more than a twinkle in DARPA's eye. That's enough to mean that he's probably developed a fan base devout enough to build shrines in his honor, or at least commemorative iPad apps.

But if you ask Gibson himself -- like one audience member did during a Brookline Booksmith reading at the Coolidge Corner Theatre last year -- it still doesn't make him a celebrity.