The 'spooky' worlds of William Gibson

"A high-res realism," the author calls it. "It's a trick, but I love it."
That shared illusion of author and reader fascinates him.
"One human being sits down and makes black marks on white paper, and somewhere on the other side of the world someone sits down and interprets black marks on white paper.

 ... It's an amazing thing," he says in a phone interview. "It's like the movies without the projector. It's like the movies without the screen. And it's kind of immortal in some weird way. You can sit down and get the ... experience direct from Charles Dickens."
Like Dickens, Gibson is an author-magician in the world-creating business.
He first gained renown for "Neuromancer" in which he coined the word "cyberspace," later with "Mona Lisa Overdrive," "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "Pattern Recognition." His latest is "Spook Country" (Putnam).