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We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

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
Future
Living
Weirder
Possibly
Except
Anybody

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