Erin KissaneSecondary to earlier thread: Gibson’s absolutely a southern writer no matter how long he’s lived in Canada, and it’s interesting how many reviewers both in and out of genre circles miss that.
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FeralRobots@kissane yeh & he's pointed that out so many times himself that it's starting to get kind of weird how people miss it. It's even right there in the early Sprawl stuff - surprising amount of it is rural, & so much of that in places coded as appalachia. Even getting up into, say, Virtual Light, they're taking side-trips into spaces that look a lot like appalachia (even though they're in NoCal).
@FeralRobots Even The Peripheral! (Grotesque tv series accents aside.) And like, listen to the man do a reading!
I’m very sideeye about the critical gaps, but given all the social scapegoating the NE does wrt everything southern, it’s not surprising.
shunting@kissane @FeralRobots ESPECIALLY The Peripheral, which is great (even if the follow-on, Agency, is horrid).
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Tobias Klausmann@kissane As a European, his descriptions of the Sprawl and the Rust Belt clearly reflected that. Maybe for an outsider it's more obvious?
steph@kissane did I ever tell you about going to see him talk at the South Bank, seeing various esteemed academics posit Complex Cyberpunk Theories at him, to which he inevitably relied “…no”? It was *wonderful*
@urschrei Agggghhh would pay to see that
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Leah Bobet@kissane I wonder if it's because he's also *such* a Vancouver writer, so thoroughly Vancouver, and now I'm obsessing about the overlap in that Venn diagram because I would have never considered it, but it is wide.