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.
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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