From Rolling Stone Issue 1039, Novemeber 15, 2007 — an interview with Sci-fi Novelist William Gibson:
RS: You made your name as a science fiction writer, but in your last two novels you’ve moved squarely into the present. Have you lost interest in the future?
WG: It has to do with the nature of the present. If one had gone to talk to a publisher in 1977 with a scenario for a science-fiction novel that was in effect the scenario for the year 2007, nobody would buy anything like it. It’s too complex, with too many huge sci-fi tropes: global warming; the lethal, sexually transmitted immune-system disease; the United States, attacked by crazy terrorists, invading the wrong country.
Sigh.
Gibson is a cowardly draft dodger from the Vietnam War who ran away to Canada, where he still lives, and where he continues to bash the United States.
The beauty of writing science-fiction is that you can make shit up, or just completely ignore facts and reality — like the fact that we didn’t invade the wrong country when we attacked Afghanistan.
That’s what Bush Derangement Syndrome does to you…
Do you think he was referring to Afghanistan?
Left by Preston on November 25th, 2007 at 10:18 am