A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
William GibsonArt Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
William GibsonThere are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
William GibsonA book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
William GibsonIt 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 Gibson