“This rich and overdue collection is worthy of its subject. The editors have put together a multi-faceted consideration of Gibson’s writings that focuses, in particular, on motifs of temporality, technology, and futurity. Its chapters expertly locate both Gibson and science fiction within the longue durée of the future-present.”

— Veronica Hollinger, editor, Science Fiction Studies

“Knee-deep in the Jackpot, with nothing but a Hermes 2000 portable typewriter, precise observation, and surgical prose, William Gibson, a one-man singularity, somehow made it all new. Nothing now looks the same. This excellent collection returns the favor: Gibson, historicized, is the Gibson we already knew, but the timeline is not what we imagined.”

— Mark Bould, University of the West of England, Bristol

“William Gibson is the writer who taught the world that science fiction is the realism of our time, and it’s his books that made that true. A crucial figure in our cultural history, a poet with a good eye for pattern recognition.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson, author, The Ministry for the Future