In 2016, William Gibson was a third of the way through his new novel when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. I’m curious that I’ve almost never seen it mentioned anywhere.”In a way Gibson came to fiction late. All science fiction eventually becomes vintage – mine included. Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that book – but I felt that I was losing a sense of how weird the real world around me was. Because I was busy writing novels and whatever, and I’d sort of glance out of the window at the day’s reality and I’d go: ‘Whoah!

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2020 09:00 UTC