It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
William GibsonI can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
William GibsonI only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!
William Gibson