“My real sympathy, though, is with the bright thirteen-year-old, curled on a sofa somewhere, twenty pages into the book and desperate to get to the root of the mystery of why cell phones aren’t allowed in Chiba City. Hang in there, friend. It can only get stranger.”

— William Gibson, The Sky Above The Port, 2004 — an introduction to the 20th anniversary edition of his novel Neuromancer