“ Perhaps most famously , Gibson wrote Neuromancer without the aid of a computer , and indeed , without knowing much about computer at all . This ignorance direct to a lesson that every scifi writer , devotee and everybody else should learn : your noesis might be stultify your imagination . Gibson was free to opine virtual societal networks and complex visual interface primarily because he had no reason to think otherwise . ” — Avi Abrams , DarkRoastedBlend“It ’s actually harder to write science fabrication , because you have to know more . I ’ve never been a arduous science fabrication writer , but even write a non - toilsome skill fiction story you have to roll in the hay a slew more about science and the human race and how things ferment than you do to write a illusion . ” — Veteran SF editor in chief Gardner Dozois , interview in Locus .
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