P1010090 William Gibson at Barnes & Noble in Austin

on June 2008, reading from his latest novel, Spook Country. Read more about his reading and 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.