"I began to tell interviewers, somewhat testily, that I believed I could write a novel set in the present, our present, then, which would have exactly the affect of my supposed imaginary futures. Hadnāt J. G. Ballard declared Earth to be the real alien planet? Wasnāt the future now? So I did. In 2001, I was writing a book that became Pattern Recognition, my seventh novelā¦I found the material of the actual twenty-first century richer, stranger, more multiplex, than any imaginary twenty-first century could ever have been. And it could be unpacked with the toolkit of science fiction. I donāt really see how it can be unpacked otherwise, as so much of it is so utterly akin to science fiction, complete with a workaday level of cognitive dissonance we now take utterly for granted."
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"Talk for Book Expo, New York," 2010, published in Distrust That Particular Flavor, 2012.
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