In a New York Times’s review of “Zero History,” William Gibson’s new novel, Scarlett Thomas writes:
The only other writer who is as good at chonicling our contemporary milieu, in which the world of things eats itself like an ouroboros, is Dougas Coupland.
Is it just coincidence, or is there a reason, that Gibson and Coupland, whether immigrant or native-born, are both based by choice in Vancouver?
To read Gibson is to read the present as if it were the future, because it seems the present is becoming the future faster than it is becoming the past.
