A comment and a date-

1) comment- much like Atwood- (from google)
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and essayist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. 

2) a date- he is coming to the chicago humanities festival (motto- I'll have two cerveza frias and some kultoor to go with that) 

http://chicagohumanities.org/events/2014/journeys/william-gibson
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his landmark novelNeuromancer, CHF favorite William Gibson returns to the Festival. This autumn he’ll celebrate the publication of his latest work, The Peripheral, a high-tech thriller set partly in a decadent postapocalyptic future.