i was just wondering if anyone knew the town in mexico where allison and the dutchman are?
it sounds as though it's near manzanillo and puerto vallarta...?
thanks

How William Gibson discovered science fiction
Beautiful ending, as always.

What I wanted was to attain the world of The Time Machine, the Morlocks' garden. Wells's Victorian future nightmare had become a favorite fantasyland, for me. Because it existed so far up the timeline as to be beyond history, and history, once acknowledged, had quickly become a sort of nightmare, one from which there seemed to be no escape.
History, I was learning, there at the start of the nineteen-sixties, never stops happening.

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William Gibson on remix culture
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love appropriation.

We live at a peculiar juncture, one in which the record (an object) and the recombinant (a process) still, however briefly, coexist. But there seems little doubt as to the direction things are going. The recombinant is manifest in forms as diverse as Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, machinima generated with game engines (Quake, Doom, Halo), the whole metastasized library of Dean Scream remixes, genre-warping fan fiction from the universes of Star Trek or Buffy or (more satisfying by far) both at once, the JarJar-less Phantom Edit (sound of an audience voting with its fingers), brand-hybrid athletic shoes, gleefully transgressive logo jumping, and products like Kubrick figures, those Japanese collectibles that slyly masquerade as soulless corporate units yet are rescued from anonymity by the application of a thoughtfully aggressive "custom" paint job.

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Squinting at the Present

Gibson on how he's not a prescient futurist (you know, that's what all prescient futurists say).



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1984 is right for Neuromancer. He was publishing short fiction in Omni and in SF anthologies before that. I think Johnny Mnemonic (yes, the bad movie of the same name was based on it) was published in Omni in 1981.

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Gibson on US Politics

Well, it's just about into his territory...** (Excuse me while I geek out here, but by my, albeit sketchy, recollection, wasn't Neuromancer was published before 1984?) (LOL* PFW)



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Neuroart

Some weird but intriguing art based on William Gibson's Neuromancer.


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Has 'Punker Gibson Turned Against His Loyal Nerds to Write Mundane Fiction?

WG on sci-fi's relation to the future.




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So This is the Matrix?

William Gibson has a hopping discussion board over at his site, plus his own blog.



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