“What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don’t know they’re con men. They’re wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience-that’s part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces. I had those guys hitting on me every last day in Baghdad.” She held up her fist, showing Milgrim her plain gold wedding band. “Your guy can walk ( Read more... )

The old man was as American as it got, but in what she thought of as some very recently archaic way. Someone who would’ve been in charge of something, in America, when grown-ups still ran things (Gibson, 2007.)

Found in Daniel Suarez' FreedomTM and William Gibson's Zero History respectively, the Ring of Aggys and the Ugly T-Shirt are two - as far as we know - fictional devices that were designed to render their wearer invisible to digital video cameras.

Every once in a while, life hands you one of those delightful moments. I stopped at Pazzo Books on a whim and found my attention drawn by a block of plain cold beige-green book. On closer examination, I noted the words "William Gibson" graven on the front. Flipping to the spine, what did I find but the words Pattern RecognitionWhen I opened the ( Read more... )

Win Pollard was a spy, period. The Russians at the end of the book described him as “...a brilliant man, an old opponent, supposedly long retired”. I don’t think someone who only designed crowd-control barriers and never actually engaged in espionage would rate such a description.

One is "... huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant.", the other is a "... monstrously intelligent giant baby." The conclusion is obvious:

Hubertus Bigend is Judge Holden!

Zen is technology. Interesting.

Certain people have, in recent days, said - nay, proclaimed that "now" is so crazy, so brief, frenzied and fleeting that predicting even the near-future is impossible.

I call bullshit.

Fact is, we have never been so well-equipped to see the future coming as we are today. We have never had this much access to the tools and people and events that ( Read more... )

EDIT: fucking work computers. Will fix HTML later. In the mean time, LJ-Cutting Everything.

EDIT (couple of frenzied minutes later): Done. Jeezus.

Never become a specialist, my son, for their fate is to eternally serve the agendas of men with more general interests - me

Nothing says, "I'm a complete fucking prick, with an overblown opinion of my ( Read more... )

William Gibson is left-handed and has the canine teeth of the world's friendliest vampire.

Guess how I know this. Go on, pleeeeeeease.