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I'm not traditionally a sci-fi reader though Neuromancer was indeed so exciting and new and a must read among art/lit college types when I read it in the late 80s. I'm a huge fan of your books that are set in the present - Pattern Recognition especially. They really illuminate how we're living in an in between time now and somehow transitioning to the not so benign "future". Can you talk more please about your own transition to writing about the present, the impact 9/11 may have had on that (for Pattern Recognition especially) and your own thoughts real, human, person to person connection in the 21st century. Thanks! 

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I too grew up Orthodox on the East Coast and felt the need to flee that world physically for the West. I read Like Never Before when it first came out and found real comfort and recognition in the stories. As the years have passed I feel a strange nostalgia for how we grew up but know I could never have survived if I stayed in that world. Thanks for your work. 

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