P1010088 William Gibson smirks at a nonworking microphone

as he tries to read an excerpt from his latest novel, Spook Country, that he gave at Barnes & Noble in Austin on June 2008. Read more about his Q&A in this article on my website. Does Gibson consider his works to be dystopian? Does he create his characters deliberately, or do they spontaneously generate themselves? The latter is definitely the case, as in an example of a character that grew out of a white room. Is there really such a cultural phenomenon as cyberpunk? Last, not knowing much about technology can enable a SF writer to see the forest for the trees.