Having swallowed whole the concept of cyberspace and eaten up the novels and short stories of William Gibson in the 1980s – Burning Chrome and the Sprawl trilogy – Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive – I finally got to phone interview him in 1990 and then meet him in the flesh ( with Bruce Sterling), at the Groucho Club, for the launch of their co-authored steam-punk classic The Difference Engine. Three years later he was back in town for the launch of Virtual Light, at which time I conducted a video interview with him in the offices of the tv production company Kudos. It has yet to see the light of day. Read my extensive accounts of both encounters here:
http://hqinfo.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/generalist-archive-william-gibson-bruce.html
http://hqinfo.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/generalist-archive-virtual-light.html
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