• Jo Miran
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    4 months ago

    …the sci-fi writer William Gibson…

    For those who dont know:

    If the quote sounds very cyberpunk (techno futuristic corporate dystopia) it is because William Gibson is the father of the cyberpunk genre.

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      4 months ago

      And did it by boldly having no understanding of computers at the time which is why all the tech is so different from a lot of other scifi. I recently got through my decade long Asimov kick and am slowly working through Gibson now