William Gibson

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Michael Silverblatt

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Pattern Recognition (Putnam)

Inventor of cyber-punk William Gibson says that his new novel, though set in the future, is realistic. How did this popular prophet become capable of predicting reality? And what is his relationship to the great future-predictors of the past, like Philip Dick?

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William Gibson: author, 'Pattern Recognition'

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