I loved Gibson at the time, but it seems he doesn't really have the passion of a futurist, like my personal fave Greg Egan. I've always thought that writers wh

I loved Gibson at the time, but it seems he doesn't really have the passion of a futurist, like my personal fave Greg Egan. I've always thought that writers who use SF merely as a trope to talk about the present sort of miss the whole point. Yes, the present is the launchpad; but what is interesting is to speculate about the possible futures any particular now might imply. I have to assume PKD would find something to write about, were he alive today.