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

I agree that “Pattern Recognition” and its sequels are arguably not science fiction, but “The Peripheral” (which I finally got around to reading over the holidays), certainly is. It involves people from the future a century or so out interfering with their past (sort of; he uses parallel universes to avoid the paradoxes of time travel) which is still our future (3D printing tech in the “past” is still way better than what we have now).

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