RE: Is there such a thing as technical fiction?

["Zvi Gilbert" <zgilbert -at- aw -dot- sgi -dot- com>]

It would be odd if William Gibson said 'Yanks' with that kind of British
diction, as he's an American from South Carolina, raised in Virginia and
Arizona, and has lived in Canada for more than 30 years.

(Now, if he'd said 'Yankee'... ;) ).

--Zvi
zgilbert -at- aw -dot- sgi -dot- com


Victoria Camgros said:
> At 04:11 PM 1/13/2003 -0800, Maggie Pierce Secara wrote:
> >How about the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson?
> >And a lot of "hard science" science fiction is or has
> >been quite technical.
> Poor William Gibson. He thought he was writing pure science
> fiction. He's been quoted as saying "I never though you Yanks
> would go and build the thing!"

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