This Friday evening was a special event for my wife Laura and I. We are both William Gibson fans, and he came to Atlanta as part of his tour for the release of Pattern Recognition in paperback. We arrived a bit late, expecting to just take our place in line. However, much to our surprise, we walk in to William Gibson standing at a lecturn doing an informal Q&A session with the 100-150 people who showed up. How cool is that? It was neat to hear his answers to the questions. He was very approachable and gracious; several of the questions were fashioned to exhibit the questioner's intelligence or knowledge of Gibson, and I was surprised at how politely he answered them without being annoyed.
We were among the last people in line, and as we were leaving, my wife and I were telling our friend Tom that we were up for getting something to eat. Laura then told us that she figured William Gibson might be hungry, too. Tom and myself hung back sheepishly while my wife went up and invitied William to dinner. Unfortunately, he had a really tight schedule and had to fly out that night. It was pretty neat though; I am glad my wife has the spunk to do that sort of thing. I would just think of it and then regret not asking for a couple of weeks if not longer.
Posted by barryhawkins at February 13, 2004 11:11 PM