Aerial view of Levittown, Pennsylvania.
"'The property they [developers] built on had been farmland, overlooked by a big rickety-looking wood frame house,' the science fiction writer William Gibson tells me of his time living in a Charlotte, North Carolina, suburb ('on Blackberry Circle, where all the homes seem to have been built in 1954') that today is called Collingwood. 'I once referred to it [the farmer’s home] as a poor people’s house, and my father corrected me, saying that they [the farmer who owned the land] had lots more money than we did, because they’d sold the rest of their land to the company he worked for, which had built the development,' he recalls of the property the homes were built on. Gibson once described living in that suburb as 'like living on Mars,' with no grass and orange clay all around. I remember reading that and thinking about how much his suburban experience sounded like an old sci-fi story. ..."
The Paris Review
2010 September: Cyberpunk, 2010 October: Bruce Sterling, 2011 July: William Gibson, 2015 May: Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology - edited by Bruce Sterling (1986), 2015 July: A Global Neuromancer, 2016 May: The Difference Engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (1990), 2017 August: Sprawl trilogy, 2019 February: Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science - Edited by Larry McCaffery (1992), 2019 December: How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real, 2020 May: We’re on the Brink of Cyberpunk
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