Mitch R. Murray is a PhD candidate in the Department of
English at the University of Florida. His work appears in
ASAP/Journal, Public Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and
Science Fiction Film and Television. He lives in Gainesville,
Florida.
Mathias Nilges is professor of English at St. Francis Xavier
University, Canada. He is author of Right-Wing Culture in
Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without
Future. He lives in Afton Station, Nova Scotia.
This rich and overdue collection is worthy of its subject. The
editors have put together a multi-faceted consideration of Gibson's
writings that focuses, in particular, on motifs of temporality,
technology, and futurity. Its chapters expertly locate both Gibson
and science fiction within the longue durée of the
future-present." - Veronica Hollinger, editor, Science Fiction
Studies
"Knee-deep in the Jackpot, with nothing but a Hermes 2000 portable
typewriter, precise observation, and surgical prose, William
Gibson, a one-man singularity, somehow made it all new. Nothing now
looks the same. This excellent collection returns the favor:
Gibson, historicized, is the Gibson we already knew, but the
timeline is not what we imagined." - Mark Bould, University of the
West of England, Bristol
"William Gibson is the writer who taught the world that science
fiction is the realism of our time, and it's his books that made
that true. A crucial figure in our cultural history, a poet with a
good eye for pattern recognition." - Kim Stanley Robinson, author,
The Ministry for the Future
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