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• 07-Oct-2024

  
  Cyberpunk at 40. Joanna McNeil has a new piece up at Filmmaker. The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk. It’s a terrific appreciation for cyberpunk, and for William Gibson’s writing in particular. I’ve often wondered why cyberpunk tattooed itself into my brain the second I encountered it. This passage from her column sounds like “why”...

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• 13-Feb-2024
  Items You May or May Not Wish To Read and Look At How Latin America Revolutionized Baseball: Some Latinos were able to bend the rules because of their skin color, but they were never considered “superstars” by the general public or media before 1947—except for one. His name was Adolfo Lugue from Havana Cuba, and he was considered a “white-Cuban.” In 1923, Adolfo won 27 games for...

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• 07-Dec-2023
  Virtual Light by William Gibson read by Peter Weller One of my favorite books and favorite audio books was the reading of an abridged Virtual Light by Peter Weller. I empathized with both Chevette Washington and Berry Rydell as young people trying to figure their lives out. And that future world was so vivid. From the 1990s a world with connected computers and multiuser...

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• 30-Dec-2021
  On Atemporality At the “end” of the year, as we are, one can’t help but think about time. Time “passes.” And we can “waste” time. But in a very real sense “time” is not a “thing” in the same way as other nouns. We are bound to our temporal space. We can “remember” prior times but we...

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• 06-Oct-2016

  
  Lucius Warbaby from William Gibson’s Virtual Light is today’s #inktober Bounty hunter, doleful as hell, Amerasian from a 2006 San Francisco that never was. #inktober2016

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• 06-Aug-2013

  
  Vat Stuff: Real. From Neuromancer: Molly and Armitage ate in silence, while Case sawed shakily at his steak, reducing it to uneaten bite-sized fragments, which he pushed around in the rich sauce, finally abandoning the whole thing. “Jesus,” Molly said, her own plate empty, “gimme that. You know what this costs?” She took his plate. “They gotta raise...

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• 12-Mar-2010
  Misc about SXSW I am not at South by Southwest. Leah is. I went, myself, back in 2001. That’s 9 years ago. Austin was a great town and I had fun. These many years later what stands out is meeting the folks from evolt at Evoltageddon 2. That was fun–really fun actually — The Ginger Man was a...

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• 31-Jul-2008

  
  William Gibson In 1988 I, along with my pal Chris Greazel, saw William Gibson read at a bookstore in La Jolla, above La Jolla Cove. It was intimate, maybe two dozen people in the audience. We had a great time, and it felt like we’d had an audience with the pope. I’m not sure why it was...

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• 20-Nov-2007
  William Gibson, Gravy, and a Video William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview : Rolling Stone I find myself less pessimistic than I sometimes imagine I should be. When I started to write science fiction, the intelligent and informed position on humanity’s future was that it wasn’t going to have one at all. We’ve forgotten that a whole lot of...

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• 22-Oct-2007
  Terrorism is an inverted lottery From a recent interview: William Gibson Hates Futurists :: tyeebooks.ca On whether some new terrorist attack will make 9-11 look small “Eventually, I would say it’s almost inevitable. Not immediately, because there is no need. The last one is still working. In some strange way, [for terrorists] anything that was less than 9-11 won’t do....

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