 | I am:William GibsonThe chief instigator of the "cyberpunk" wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction. |
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The Staff was really just a big stick…Anyway, it was capped by an elaborate headpiece with a carving of the sun at the top. What you had to do was take the Staff to a special map room in Tanis--it had the whole city laid out in miniature on the floor. When you placed the Staff in a certain spot in this room, at a certain time of day, the sun would shine through a hole here in the headpiece and then send a beam of light down here—to the map--giving you the location of the Well of the Souls...
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I'm Jerry Pournelle, whom I've never heard of. Interestingly, "The real Jerry Pournelle once took this quiz, and it told him he was Robert Heinlen."
William Gibson's stuff is great. Sure Johnny Mnemonic is an amazingly awful movie (though, I have to say Henry Rollins has certainly grown as an actor since... but that movie, yeesh), but the stories themselves are tons of fun. The short story "The Belonging Kind" always intrigues me, and kind of creeps me out at the same time.
Neil Gaiman once posted a link on his blog to a documentary featuring a 19-year-old draft-dodging hippie William Gibson in Canada, long before his writing fame.
Interesting factoid, this quiz's results are almost exclusively white men:
Men: 18 (white), 1(black)
Women: 2 (white), 1(black)
In addition to Ayn Rand there were James Triptree, Jr., and Octavia Butler.
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