[Squishy] Gibson Reading

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some of you might be interested in this:

 > WILIIAM GIBSON BOOK READING when: Thur 2/6 (7:30pm) where: Cody's
 > Books (2454 Telegraph Ave, 510.845.7852) price: FREE
 > 
 > The dark daddy of cyberpunk, William Gibson's influence is felt in
 > Blade Runner and The Matrix, the work of writ ers such as
 > K.W. Jeter and Rudy Rucker, and most video games that have come out
 > in the past 10 years.  Neuromancer, the first cyberpunk novel,
 > which Gibson wrote in 1986, was set in a dark world of corporate
 > domination and deserted streets ruled b y ana rchist forces. A
 > harsh social forecast, the book anticipated the '90s, predicting
 > the reach of the Internet, chat rooms, and avatars in an eerily
 > clairvoyant vision of the Web-wide world. Tonight, Gibson reads
 > from his latest, *Pattern Recognition*, touted to bring cyberpunk
 > to a new plane. Could it be cyberdebunk?
 > 
 > William Gibson http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com Cody's Books
 > http://www.codysbooks.com