William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election

But it wouldn’t be science, and it certainly wouldn’t be fiction. Gibson doesn’t write science fiction anymore anyway, hasn’t since ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’, he writes Speculative Fiction - same initials, whole other style.
Since ‘Pattern Recognition’ his books have been set in the present, just not quite our present, a ‘mirror world’ if you like…

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