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"smells of cat pee and drinking beer out of a cracked mug."

When you coined the word “cyberspace,” did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy?

Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn’t ignored. Now, on a good day, my career seems so utterly unlikely that I wonder if I’m not about to snap out of a DMT blackout and discover that I’m not actually a famous writer of William Gibson novels but that I’m working at a used-book shop that smells of cat pee and drinking beer out of a cracked coffee mug.

I can’t really imagine anyone who makes better metaphor than William Gibson. And I’m sure all of us have moments where we wonder if we’re about to wake up like that.