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I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
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Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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