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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Truth in Postmodern Falsisity

Visionary writer is OK. Prophet is just not true. One of the things that made me like Bruce Sterling immediately when first I met him, back in 1991. [sic] We shook hands and he said "We’ve got a great job ! We got to be charlatans and we’re paid for it. We make this shit up and people believe it."

—Gibson in interview with ActuSf, March 2008

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