Friday, February 06, 2004
No More Future for William Gibson
William Gibson's Pattern Recognition has just been released in paperback, sparking a mini-signing tour and the usual associated interviews. In the Arizona Republic, Gibson talks a little about Pattern Recognition and hints that he won't be returning to a future scenario in his next novel. On the turn away from the future, he comments:
William Gibson's Pattern Recognition has just been released in paperback, sparking a mini-signing tour and the usual associated interviews. In the Arizona Republic, Gibson talks a little about Pattern Recognition and hints that he won't be returning to a future scenario in his next novel. On the turn away from the future, he comments:
"We can't have futures the way people had them in the '50s and the '60s, because the present is too volatile for us to project from," he says. "The day after tomorrow is too much of a stretch, let alone 60 years from now."An interesting idea, that SF relies on some form of optimism, but so much dystopian SF surely doesn't (and is, to differing extents, formulated as some sort of warning). But the recognisable cyberpunk authors were always more interested in the very-near future and extrapolated/exaggerated present that the future anyway ... weren't they?
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