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Some have described you as a sort of technological prophet. How do you see your relationship with technology? My predictive capacity has always been
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to the strange new world of the present, Joshua Rothman writes.
New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.
William Gibson, one of science fiction’s most visionary and distinctive voices, maintains that he and his fellow writers don’t possess some mystical ability to peer into the future. “We’re almost always wrong,” said Gibson in a phone interview with Wired. Gibson coined the term cyberspace in his 1982 short story “Burning Chrome” and expanded on […]
If you were drawn into the apocalyptic cyberpunk future depicted in Ender's Game, you'll eat Neuromancer up. Ender is at times a reluctant hero, and Gibson's has-been hacker Case is similarly unlikely — but when a dangerous artificial intelligence threatens Earth, it's Case (working with a dead man and a street fighter) who has the power to save the world.Get it from Amazon for $7.19, Barnes and Noble for $8.99, or a local bookseller through IndieBound here.
The sci-fi novelist on how he inspired the creation of a fashion line – and his nerdy fascination with military fatigues
