SHADOWRUNNING

Interview with fountain-pen wielding writer extraordinare, Neil Stephenson. Still haven’t read Snow Crash, keep starting and stopping that one — it’s some kind of extreme Gibson loyalty that if were, forefend, to enjoy another big cyberpunkist, I’d be dissin William. Hmm. Not like I don’t read Sterling and uh, a bunch of others. Oh well, i seemed to have gotten over it enough to read Cryptonomicon, which was absolutely one of my top 25 if not top 10 books I’ve ever read! But Snow Crash is just to self-imagined-to-me derivative of Gibson’s work that I … just … can’t … quite …. grok … it.

Just found this in his blog, William Gibson answering questions on a Barnes and Noble website.

Found this today in my news alerts, a review of the X-Files classic Gibson/Maddox written episode, Killswitch. And I totally agree with the write-up, yep, my fav X-File episode. Well that and the dude with the tail….

Steampunk Anthology review in LA Times.

A quick interview with Charles Stross in the Guardian yesterday. A pretty good take-way: “It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings,” he says. “Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.”