WILLIAM GIBSON
Jan 29, 2020
3 minutes
Words by Jonathan Wright
Photography by Michael O’Shea
IN 2016, WILLIAM GIBSON WAS AT WORK ON THE novel that would become Agency. It was set in “a sort of contemporary Silicon Valley moneyland”. He was happy with how the manuscript was going. Then, in June, came the Brexit referendum.
“I woke up and saw how that vote had gone, and for the first time believed it might actually be possible for Donald Trump to be elected president, because was obviously more powerful in the world than I’d ever imagined,” he
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