by lm

What is perhaps most significant about Gibson’s fiction, then, is what he chooses not to write about. None of his nine novels has been set in a world that requires the annihilation of our own to make narrative sense. The end of the world is nowhere to be found. Instead, there are constellations of possible futures, each of them requiring far more imagination to look at with open eyes than any dystopian fairy tale.

This essay is hardly just about Gibson's writing, though.