How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real

Joshua Rothman at The New Yorker: Most science fiction takes place in a world in which “the future” has definitively arrived; the locomotive filmed by the Lumière brothers has finally burst through the screen. But in “Neuromancer” there was only a continuous arrival—an ongoing, alarming present. “Things aren’t different. Things are things,” an A.I. reports, … Continue reading How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real