Many of you know my great respect for William Gibson’s works, and that I derive hope from the fact that he’s a native South Carolinian.

Back in September of last year, he announced on his blog that he would no longer be blogging while writing a book. I believed him, and dutifully removed the feed with chagrin from my RSS aggregator while doing a little “fall cleaning.” Turns out he couldn’t stay away, so I caught up on the archives. In there, I found the following tidbits quite interesting:

He wrote the black [1] Buzz Rickson’s MA-1 flight jacket into existence. Seriously. Get the story straight from the horse’s mouth [2] here. Here’s a short explanation [3] from Technovelgy.com.

In March, he posted [4] a review of V for Vendetta thus: “More thumbs up than a Chernobyl pianist. Superb. Splendid. Heartening. Go see.” This has changed my opinion of whether the film was worth it; a Xangan had talked poorly of the movie, but when the father of cyberpunk fiction says a movie is good….

Read [5] Time Machine Cuba by Wm Gibson at InfiniteMatrix.

[6] F:F:F —my autographed hardcover of [7] Pattern Recognition (2003) would have been significantly more “filled in” had I seen this while reading: “These images are intended to give a sense of place to locations in William Gibson’s [7] Pattern Recognition.”

Many of you know my great respect for William Gibson’s works, and that I derive hope from the fact that he’s a native South Carolinian.

Back in September of last year, he announced on his blog that he would no longer be blogging while writing a book. I believed him, and dutifully removed the feed with chagrin from my RSS aggregator while doing a little “fall cleaning.” Turns out he couldn’t stay away, so I caught up on the archives. In there, I found the following tidbits quite interesting:

He wrote the black [9] Buzz Rickson’s MA-1 flight jacket into existence. Seriously. Get the story straight from the horse’s mouth [10] here. Here’s a short explanation [11] from Technovelgy.com.

In March, he posted [12] a review of V for Vendetta thus: “More thumbs up than a Chernobyl pianist. Superb. Splendid. Heartening. Go see.” This has changed my opinion of whether the film was worth it; a Xangan had talked poorly of the movie, but when the father of cyberpunk fiction says a movie is good….

Read [13] Time Machine Cuba by Wm Gibson at InfiniteMatrix.

[14] F:F:F —my autographed hardcover of [15] Pattern Recognition (2003) would have been significantly more “filled in” had I seen this while reading: “These images are intended to give a sense of place to locations in William Gibson’s [15] Pattern Recognition.”