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Might as well be Canadian

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From John Clute’s A portrait of the burn of the world, a review of William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties:

There are several occupants of the previous books: Rydell, a man so incapable of protagonist moves of a generic sort he might as well be Canadian; Rei Toei, the Idoru herself, the hologrammatic artifact composed of information, growing denser by the second; Chevette and Fontaine from the first book; and others.

A man so incapable of protagonist moves of a generic sort he might as well be Canadian. Damn, that’s cold.

(See also Clute’s entry on William Gibson in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.)