The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson (via wilwheaton)

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milonogiannis:

I stumbled onto these while looking through some old files. Did these pages from William Gibson’s BURNING CHROME short story back in February, I think. It feels like yesterday, though.

Bobby was a cowboy.

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sciencefiction: The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. It hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that’s just life — it’s not science fiction, it’s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.  William Gibson, on Blade Runner
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sciencefiction:

The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. It hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that’s just life — it’s not science fiction, it’s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it. 

William Gibson, on Blade Runner

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Making Places: William Gibson on "Cyberspace"

makingplaces:

There’s an excerpt from an interview with William Gibson up on io9, where he talks about the impetus of his idea of “cyberspace.” The Cyberpunk genre, which Gibson helped invent with Neuromancer, is pretty worldbuilding-intensive: it’s very dependent on atmosphere, setting, and an…

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