Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.