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The future is there, Cayce hears herself say, looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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William Ford Gibson
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