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>Japan became the world's dominant superpower rather than the US. According to Gibson himself, the US itself no longer exists as a country in the Sprawl novels
by jhbadger 3y ago
>Japan became the world's dominant superpower rather than the US.
According to Gibson himself, the US itself no longer exists as a country in the Sprawl novels. I never noticed it from reading them, but apparently the only person who mentions the US as a country is Armitage/Corto, who is a generation or two older than the other characters, and even he is just talking about it in the context of "the war" the other characters were too young for.
- duskwuff 3y agoHuh. I never noticed that before, but you're right. Do you happen to know if Gibson ever explained what happened to the US, or is that left as an intriguing blank spot?
- jhbadger 3y agoI'm trying to find the interview where he talked about that it that I read a decade or so ago, but as I recall, he said that his idea (which wasn't actually stated in the books) was after the brief WWIII, the US was demilitarized and broken up into smaller states, of which the "Sprawl" (the urbanized US East Coast from Boston down to Atlanta) was one of.