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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

William Gibson

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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People
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Present
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