In the 1980s, William Gibson allegedly coined the term “cyberspace,”
which nobody besides your parents has used in conversation for
at least five years. But, as Stranger critic Steven Shaviro
pointed out in a March 2003 review of Pattern Recognition,
Gibson is probably the first writer to use “Google” as a
verb. In his newest thriller, Spook Country, he’s one of the
first to realistically capture the antigovernment
techno-paranoia of the first decade of the new millennium. Most
sci-fi authors are still trying to catch up to Gibson, and after
30 years, none of them has come close. (University Book
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