![]() And like an eager student, he was hungry for the approval of his idols. So Harkaway, who had shied away from being “too literary” in his earlier work, took that as a directive and leaped right into “Gnomon,” his most ambitious novel yet, without a plan in place. Harkaway explained some of the oddities of local London government, which partly inspired Gibson’s “The Peripheral.” And in turn, Gibson shared his philosophy about writing: Don’t plan too much, just dive right in. ![]() The two were enjoying a perfectly lovely afternoon - drinking tea, eating cakes, and strolling around in the back garden - and then they started swapping ideas. ![]() When Gibson came to visit his protégé Nick Harkaway at his home in London, the originator of cyberpunk’s well-meant advice almost derailed the genre-bender’s most recent book. ![]()
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