![]() ![]() I remember interviewing him for my fanzine at ArmadilloCon back in 1986, and while he was friendly and gregarious, there was also a hint of shyness and modesty to his personality (in this, he was kind of the anti-Sterling), and a very real bewilderment at what was taking place all around him. Into all of this hype - for hype it largely was - was thrust the unassuming figure of Gibson. There was a feeling - actively encouraged by most of the writers who were participants - that a new, zeitgeist-altering moment was at hand, and SF was finally going to undergo its first meaningful literary revolution since the New Wave struck at the end of the sixties. ![]() If you were at all active in SF in the mid-eighties, then all you heard was cyberpunk this and cyberpunk that. ![]() But with the publication of Neuromancer in 1984, he had that role foisted upon him. William Gibson never meant to become the leader of a movement. ![]()
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