Podcast: Play in new window | Download Cyberpunk Fortean William Gibson  “I’m Totally a Fortean!” “It’s always a pleasure to return to Austin, which in some weird way was definitely the epicenter of my literary career, such as it’s been.” On Thursday, September 6th, I had the pleasure of finally seeing William Gibson in-the-flesh. Despite his being sick with a cold (he offered to infect any attendees with it who might’ve had such a Cronenbergian desire) Gibson read an interesting piece from his new book, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and regaled the audience with his observations on a few subjects including fashion. It’s weird, really weird reading any of this stuff because I never read any of it before. I never read it to an audience. These were written for magazine publication. The weirdest of these, I … Read entire article »