Cybervisionary novelist William Gibson recently did a live reading that was also a virtual reading on Second Life. “I had a laptop open so I could see it as if I was watching from within Second Life. What I saw I found a bit distracting — people levitating and sitting on top of the microphone.” He writes, these days, about the contemporary world, which is not, he says, as big a shift as it might seem. “All science fiction is in one way or another about the moment in which it’s written, even if the people who write it don’t know that.”