Sometimes a writer will become known for a particular iconic line, character, title or scene (the kids call them ‘memes’ these days) and never really rise above it. William Gibson managed the feat of lending the English language one of its most used words of recent years, ‘cyberspace’, which came from his dystopian 1984 sci-fi novel Neuromancer.
That novel was eerily prescient and did some great world building, but nothing about the prose was quite as strong as the contribution the book made to the genre.
Agency suffers somewhat from the same fate. The present and future (the year 2136) Gibson has built are as inspired as they are realistic – he’s an accomplished futurist – and the premise he installs within his world is the stuff of thrilling sci-fi.
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