Between Q's Headspace and the Hard Place of Western History - CounterPunch.org

Between Q's Headspace and the Hard Place of Western History - CounterPunch.org: In the early nineties, I was writing a novel about a young US military photographer in Honduras during the Contra War. I wanted one of the characters to be a science fiction reader. Since I don’t care for, or read much, science fiction, I felt I had to read at least one sci-fi book. So I read William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer, a thriller about a young man having adventures in a totally artificial, computer world that Gibson dubbed "cyberspace." The question whether or not cyberspace was a real place hovered over the story. More