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William Gibson
@GreatDismal
Author of Neuromancer, The Peripheral, Agency… I’m also @greatdismal.bsky.social
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    William Gibson
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    Apr 22
    1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address: [email protected].
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    William Gibson
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    Apr 4, 2020
    Retweet forever.
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    The Daily Show
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    Apr 3, 2020
    Hannity. Rush. Dobbs. Ingraham. Pirro. Nunes. Tammy. Geraldo. Doocy. Hegseth. Schlapp. Siegel. Watters. Dr. Drew. Henry. Ainsley. Gaetz. Inhofe. Pence. Kudlow. Conway. Trump. Today, we salute the Heroes of the Pandumbic.
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    William Gibson
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    Feb 20, 2023
    Don’t know who to credit for this, but…
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    William Gibson
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    Jun 29, 2020
    This is one extraordinarily accurate prediction in a work of science fiction. This seldom ever happens. I’m amazed that I hadn’t seen it before today.
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    Tariq KRIM
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    Jun 28, 2020
    When French Sci-fi Barjavel was asked to imagine the future just after world war 2 : he had it almost right
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    Michaël Mangeon
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    Michaël Mangeon
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    William Gibson
    @GreatDismal
    Feb 20, 2019
    Sparrows above Rome were the color of black and white television, tuned to a dead channel.
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    William Gibson
    @GreatDismal
    Nov 16, 2016
    Don't use "alt-right". It's an increasingly effective branding move for authoritarian white supremacists. Each time we use it, we help them
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    William Gibson
    @GreatDismal
    Jul 1, 2025
    I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later, I opened the door. Neuromancer is in production.
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    Apple TV
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    Jul 1, 2025
    Welcome to the Chatsubo, cowboy. #Neuromancer is in production.
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    William Gibson
    @GreatDismal
    Sep 5, 2018
    Go off to write science fiction, come back to Vanilla Ice tweeting from a quarantined plague airliner.
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    William Gibson
    @GreatDismal
    Jun 4, 2022
    Saved Photo Wired, July ‘97, deep in the Long Boom futurology boom. Perversely pessimistic at the time.
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    William Gibson
    @GreatDismal
    Nov 3, 2018
    Fascists in a democracy demand the right of free speech, but once in power will absolutely, definitively, not grant it to anyone other than themselves. That's their trick and they know it perfectly well.
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    William Gibson
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    Oct 2, 2013
    People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
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    William Gibson
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    Sep 9, 2018
    This is, literally, ground zero of science fiction
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    William Gibson
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    Oct 5, 2020
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    William Gibson
    @GreatDismal
    Jul 5, 2019
    Katsuhiro Otomo showed me the first fax machines I ever saw. They were in his home. He was making Akira then and they kept scrolling pencilled frames.
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    Gizmodo
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    Jul 5, 2019
    Katsuhiro Otomo is headlining a new Akira anime series, and a 4K remaster of the original movie is on the way gizmo.do/ZMYdeuL

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