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.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 19:32.